The Lone Jack 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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8° on Nov. 12, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1995. Next is 12° in 2014.
Lone Jack’s center stands about 1,020 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 840 ft to 1,040 ft, a difference of 200 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Kansas City Group (limestone, shale), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 63×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 0.7 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 Lone Jack reaches the Gulf of America by way of Sni-A-Bar Creek, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,520 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 Lone Jack; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lone Jack has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 21° in January. A normal year brings about 17 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 43 inches of water.
On November 14 Lone Jack normally reaches 55° and falls to 35°. The record high is 80°, in 1999; the record low 12°, in 2014. The most rain on this date, 0.45 in, fell in 2020.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1995 at Pleasant Hill Wfo, 6 miles southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
