The Worth 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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2° on Nov. 17, 1959, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1905. Next is 3° in 2019.
Worth’s center stands about 950 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 890 ft to 1,090 ft, a difference of 200 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Devils Horn, about 1,210 ft, 11 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Lansing Group (shale, limestone), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. 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 11 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 5 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 Worth reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Middle Fork Grand, 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 Worth; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Worth has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 14° in January. About 38 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Worth normally reaches 53° and falls to 30°. The record high is 76°, in 1964; the record low 7°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.52 in, fell in 1947.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1905 at Albany, 12 miles south-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
