The West Union 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.
West Union’s center stands about 940 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 700 ft to 1,000 ft, a difference of 300 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Peach Mountain, about 1,300 ft, 12 miles northeast.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 27×. 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. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone, dolostone. Age: Late Ordovician, 445 to 454 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Shale, black-shale. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 425 to 434 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Devonian to Carboniferous, 324 to 422 million years old. About 0.4 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 Union reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Beasley Fork, Ohio Brush Creek, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,570 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 Union; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
West Union 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 West Union 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, 15 miles west-southwest, 420 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
