The Tippecanoe 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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77° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1909. Next is 75° in 1909.
Tippecanoe’s center stands about 1,030 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 860 ft to 1,230 ft, a difference of 370 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Elephant Knob, about 1,250 ft, 12 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Conemaugh Group (shale, siltstone, mudstone), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 40×. 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, mudstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 16 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone, mudstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 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 Tippecanoe reaches the Gulf of America by way of Stillwater Creek, the Tuscarawas, the Muskingum, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,960 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 Tippecanoe; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Tippecanoe has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 85° in July; winter nights fall to about 20° in January. About 42 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Tippecanoe normally reaches 52° and falls to 32°. The record high is 75°, in 1909; the record low 11°, in 1920. The most rain on this date, 1.05 in, fell in 2011.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1909 at Dennison Water Works, 10 miles north-northwest, 170 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
