The Tuppers Plains 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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81° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1982. Next is 78° in 1993.
Tuppers Plains’s center stands about 760 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 620 ft to 930 ft, a difference of 310 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Shafer Knob, about 1,080 ft, 13 miles southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Dunkard Group (mudstone, shale, siltstone), from the Carboniferous to Permian, 252 to 324 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 47×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Mudstone, shale, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous to Permian, 252 to 324 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone, mudstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous to Permian, 252 to 324 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone, mudstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 0.3 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 Tuppers Plains reaches the Gulf of America by way of Meigs Creek, the East Branch Shade, the Shade, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,750 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 Tuppers Plains; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Tuppers Plains has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in July; winter nights fall to about 24° in January. A normal year brings about 11 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 44 inches of water.
On November 14 Tuppers Plains normally reaches 56° and falls to 36°. The record high is 77°, in 1989; the record low 10°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 0.87 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1982 at Parkersburg, 17 miles east-northeast, 170 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
