The Bellbrook 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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5° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1916. Next is 9° in 1933.
Bellbrook’s center stands about 780 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 760 ft to 1,000 ft, a difference of 240 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Reeds Hill, about 990 ft, 13 miles north-northeast.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 54×. 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, limestone. Age: Late Ordovician, 445 to 454 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone. Age: Late Ordovician, 445 to 454 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Shale, dolostone, limestone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone. Age: Late Ordovician, 445 to 459 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 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 Bellbrook reaches the Gulf of America by way of Little Sugar Creek, the Little Miami, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,550 river miles.
970 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Bellbrook; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Bellbrook has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 23° in January. A normal year brings about 20 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 43 inches of water.
On November 14 Bellbrook normally reaches 54° and falls to 36°. The record high is 76°, in 1931; the record low 10°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.09 in, fell in 2024.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1916 at Xenia 6 SSE, 9 miles east, 170 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
