The Hide-A-Way Hills 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.
79° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1896. Next is 75° in 2002.
Hide-A-Way Hills’s center stands about 960 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 770 ft to 1,090 ft, a difference of 320 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Jacobs Ladder, about 1,250 ft, 9 miles west.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Maxville Limestone; Rushville, Logan, and Cuyhoga Formations, Undivided (shale, siltstone, sandstone), from the Devonian to Carboniferous, 324 to 422 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 43×. 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, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Devonian to Carboniferous, 324 to 422 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 4 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 Hide-A-Way Hills reaches the Gulf of America by way of Durbin Run, Rush Creek, the Hocking, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,830 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 Hide-A-Way Hills; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hide-A-Way Hills has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in January. About 43 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1896 at Logan, 10 miles south-southeast, 240 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.