The Russells Point 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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1° on Nov. 16, 1933, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1894. Next is 4° in 2019.
Russells Point’s center stands about 1,000 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 980 ft to 1,050 ft, a difference of 70 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Campbell Hill, about 1,550 ft, 11 miles southeast.
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 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 38×. 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 12 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 425 to 445 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale, black-shale. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Dolostone. 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 Russells Point reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Great Miami, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,610 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 Russells Point; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Russells Point has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 18° in January. About 43 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Russells Point normally reaches 50° and falls to 32°. The record high is 72°, in 1931; the record low 8°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.77 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1894 at Bellefontaine, 10 miles southeast, 180 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
