The Russellville 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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11° on Nov. 13, 1976, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1896. Next is 13° in 1911.
Russellville’s center stands about 970 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 810 ft to 1,020 ft, a difference of 210 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Cave Hill, about 1,140 ft, 10 miles east.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Preacherville Member of the Drakes Formation, Waynesville and Arnheim Formation, Undivided (shale, limestone, dolostone), from the Late Ordovician, 445 to 454 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 31×. 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, limestone, dolostone. Age: Late Ordovician, 445 to 454 million years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Late Ordovician, 445 to 459 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 0.6 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 Russellville reaches the Gulf of America by way of Northwest Fork Eagle Creek, West Fork Eagle Creek, Eagle Creek, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,550 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 Russellville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Russellville has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in July; winter nights fall to about 23° in January. About 48 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Russellville normally reaches 56° and falls to 34°. The record high is 81°, in 1955; the record low 14°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.72 in, fell in 1951.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1896 at Maysville Wastewater Treatment Plant, 12 miles south, 460 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
