The Linn Creek plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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Linn Creek’s center stands about 690 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 650 ft to 1,030 ft, a difference of 380 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Morg Hill, about 930 ft, 11 miles west.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Gasconade Dolomite (dolostone), from the Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 36×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Dolostone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Sandstone, chert. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
A raindrop that lands in Linn Creek reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Osage, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,410 river miles.
1,170 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Linn Creek; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
