The Kearney Park 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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12° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1892. Next is 15° in 1940.
Kearney Park’s center stands about 220 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 150 ft to 280 ft, a difference of 130 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Jackson group (clay), from the Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 60×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Clay. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 24 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 Kearney Park reaches the Gulf of America by way of Balfour Creek, the Big Black and the Mississippi: about 530 river miles.
420 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Kearney Park; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Kearney Park has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 34° in January. About 57 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Kearney Park normally reaches 66° and falls to 41°. The record high is 89°, in 1921; the record low 12°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 2.90 in, fell in 1961.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1892 at Canton 4 N, 17 miles east-northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
