The Ridgeway 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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4.13 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1957. The next wettest, 2.04 inches, fell in 2009.
Ridgeway’s center stands about 1,050 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 910 ft to 1,060 ft, a difference of 150 ft: gently 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 58×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Limestone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 2 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 Ridgeway reaches the Gulf of America by way of East Fork Big Creek, Big Creek, the Grand River, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,570 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 Ridgeway; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Ridgeway has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 15° in January. About 40 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Ridgeway normally reaches 51° and falls to 31°. The record high is 80°, in 1999; the record low 2°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 0.44 in, fell in 2024.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1957 at Spickard 7 W, 15 miles southeast, 180 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
