The Upper Burrell 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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77° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1953. Next is 74° in 1993.
Upper Burrell’s center stands about 1,240 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 860 ft to 1,340 ft, a difference of 480 ft: hilly country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Casselman Formation (shale, clastic), 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 25×. 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 12 mi of the line.
Shale, clastic. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 0.6 mi of the line.
Sandstone. 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 Upper Burrell reaches the Gulf of America by way of Pucketa Creek, the Allegheny, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,970 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 Upper Burrell; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Upper Burrell has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 20° in January. A normal year brings about 29 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 46 inches of water.
On November 14 Upper Burrell normally reaches 52° and falls to 33°. The record high is 70°, in 1989; the record low 9°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 0.80 in, fell in 1985.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1953 at Salina 3 W, 7 miles east-southeast, 130 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
