The Casstown 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.
Mostly cloudy
Mostly cloudy
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
Mostly sunny
Partly cloudy
Mostly sunny
5° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 9° in 1959.
Casstown’s center stands about 940 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 830 ft to 1,050 ft, a difference of 220 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Heck Hill, about 1,220 ft, 13 miles east-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Clinton and Cataract Groups, Undivided (dolostone, limestone, shale), from the Silurian, 422 to 445 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 46×. 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, dolostone, limestone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Dolostone, limestone, shale. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 425 to 445 million years old. About 3 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 Casstown reaches the Gulf of America by way of Lost Creek, the Great Miami, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,560 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 Casstown; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Casstown has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 22° in January. A normal year brings about 25 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 41 inches of water.
On November 14 Casstown normally reaches 53° and falls to 36°. The record high is 76°, in 1909; the record low 11°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.44 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 from the Dayton Area threaded record (Dayton International Airport, 11 miles south-southwest). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
