The Freeport 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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78° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1927. Next is 70° in 2005.
Freeport’s center stands about 800 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 740 ft to 1,290 ft, a difference of 550 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Rich Hill, about 1,290 ft, 10 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Allegheny Formation (sandstone), 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 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: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 21 mi of the line.
Shale, clastic. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 1 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 Freeport reaches the Gulf of America by way of Buffalo Creek, the Allegheny, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,980 river miles.
970 miles of the trip are on the Ohio.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Freeport; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Freeport has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 21° in January. About 42 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1927 at Natrona Lock 4, 5 miles south-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
