The Pigeon Creek 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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4° on Nov. 16, 1933, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1887. Next is 12° in 1900.
Pigeon Creek’s center stands about 1,060 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,000 ft to 1,200 ft, a difference of 200 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Coal Hill, about 1,260 ft, 10 miles east.
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 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 35×. 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 11 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Shale, black-shale. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 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 Pigeon Creek reaches the Gulf of America by way of Pigeon Creek, Wolf Creek, the Tuscarawas, the Muskingum, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 2,010 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 Pigeon Creek; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Pigeon Creek has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 85° in July; winter nights fall to about 21° in January. About 32 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Pigeon Creek normally reaches 52° and falls to 35°. The record high is 73°, in 1909; the record low 14°, in 1911. The most rain on this date, 1.79 in, fell in 2011.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1887 at Akron Fulton International Airport, 12 miles east-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
