The West Rushville 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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5° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1996. Next is 10° in 1996.
West Rushville’s center stands about 1,000 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 860 ft to 1,080 ft, a difference of 220 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Jacobs Ladder, about 1,250 ft, 13 miles southwest.
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 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 50×. 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 17 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone. 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 West Rushville reaches the Gulf of America by way of Little Rush Creek, Rush Creek, the Hocking, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,850 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 West Rushville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
West Rushville has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 20° in January. About 40 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 West Rushville normally reaches 53° and falls to 32°. The record high is 73°, in 2011; the record low 15°, in 1996. The most rain on this date, 0.86 in, fell in 2011.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1996 at Lancaster Fairfield County Airport, 11 miles west, 150 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
