The Jackson Center 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. 12, 2010, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1949. Next is 75° in 2009.
Jackson Center’s center stands about 1,340 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,160 ft to 1,470 ft, a difference of 310 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Eakin Hill, about 1,500 ft, 15 miles east.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Pottsville Formation (sandstone, conglomerate), 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 30×. 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, conglomerate. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Siltstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 2 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 Jackson Center reaches the Gulf of America by way of Yellow Creek, Cool Spring Creek, Neshannock Creek, the Shenango, the Beaver, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,980 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 Jackson Center; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Jackson Center has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 81° in July; winter nights fall to about 17° in January. About 45 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Jackson Center normally reaches 50° and falls to 31°. The record high is 75°, in 2009; the record low 8°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.15 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1949 at Slippery Rock 1 SSW, 16 miles south-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
