The Nashoba 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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13° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1985. Next is 17° in 1997.
Nashoba’s center stands about 700 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 650 ft to 1,310 ft, a difference of 660 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Signal Mountain, about 1,490 ft, 14 miles southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Terrace Deposits (coarse-detrital, fine-detrital), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
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 16×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
Shale. 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 Nashoba reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Black Fork, the Little River, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 710 river miles.
390 miles of the trip are on the Red River.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Nashoba; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Nashoba has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in August; winter nights fall to about 26° in January. About 58 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 3 inches of snow.
On November 14 Nashoba normally reaches 63° and falls to 36°. The record high is 85°, in 1999; the record low 13°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.80 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1985 at Battiest, 19 miles east-southeast, 120 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
