The Kenton 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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Kenton’s center stands about 960 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 940 ft to 1,030 ft, a difference of 90 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Anstine Hill, about 1,120 ft, 13 miles west-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Tymochtee and Greenfield Formations, Undivided (dolostone), from the Silurian, 428 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 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 428 to 445 million years old. About 16 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 425 to 445 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 0.4 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.
Kenton straddles the St. Lawrence Divide. Rain on the northeast side runs to Lake Erie; most of the rest goes to the Gulf of America.
From the center of town, a raindrop reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Scioto, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,800 river miles. One that lands on the northeast side reaches Lake Erie by way of the Blanchard, the Auglaize and the Maumee: about 190 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
970 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Kenton; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
