The Burnsville 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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15° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1895. Next is 17° in 1940.
Burnsville’s center stands about 470 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 420 ft to 680 ft, a difference of 260 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Woodall Mountain, about 810 ft, 6 miles southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Eutaw formation (sand, clay), from the Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 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.
Sand, clay. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 0.5 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 Burnsville reaches the Gulf of America by way of the White Lake (historical), Pickwick Lake, the Tennessee, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,250 river miles.
Lakes on the way: White Lake (historical) and Pickwick Lake.
970 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Burnsville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Burnsville has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. About 59 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Burnsville normally reaches 62° and falls to 38°. The record high is 84°, in 1955; the record low 19°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 3.64 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1895 at Corinth 5 WSW, 17 miles west-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
