The Industry 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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81° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1961. Next is 75° in 2022.
Industry’s center stands about 710 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 670 ft to 1,250 ft, a difference of 580 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Round Knob, about 1,440 ft, 14 miles west.
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 29×. 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 10 mi of the line.
Shale, clastic. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 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 Industry reaches the Gulf of America by way of Sixmile Run, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,910 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 Industry; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Industry has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 21° in January. About 41 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Industry normally reaches 51° and falls to 34°. The record high is 71°, in 1994; the record low 8°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 0.89 in, fell in 1997.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1961 at Montgomery Lock & Dam, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
