The Mount Gilead 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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78° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 74° in 1893.
Mount Gilead’s center stands about 1,160 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,030 ft to 1,270 ft, a difference of 240 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Hulse Hill, about 1,410 ft, 13 miles south-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Berea Sandstone and Bedford Shale, Undivided (sandstone, shale), from the Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old.
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 37×. 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 8 mi of the line.
Shale, black-shale. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Black-shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 1 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 Mount Gilead reaches the Gulf of America by way of Whetstone Creek, the Olentangy, the Scioto, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,780 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 Mount Gilead; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Mount Gilead has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 20° in January. A normal year brings about 23 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 38 inches of water.
On November 14 Mount Gilead normally reaches 52° and falls to 35°. The record high is 72°, in 1909; the record low 6°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.15 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Bucyrus, 19 miles north-northwest, 200 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
