The Hillsville 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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73° on Nov. 12, 1949, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1896. Next is 72° in 1931.
Hillsville’s center stands about 1,130 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 790 ft to 1,260 ft, a difference of 470 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Turkey Hill, about 1,370 ft, 11 miles southeast.
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 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 36×. 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. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 0.7 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 Hillsville reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Mahoning, the Beaver, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,950 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 Hillsville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hillsville has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in January. A normal year brings about 68 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 41 inches of water.
On November 14 Hillsville normally reaches 50° and falls to 34°. The record high is 69°, in 1994; the record low 12°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 2.05 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1896 from the Youngstown Area threaded record (Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport, 19 miles north-northwest). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
