The Centertown 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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85° on Nov. 13, 2010, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1954. Next is 83° in 2007.
Centertown’s center stands about 1,100 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 980 ft to 1,150 ft, a difference of 170 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Short Mountain, about 2,140 ft, 10 miles north-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows St. Louis Limestone and Warsaw Limestone, from the Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 15×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Chert. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Limestone, calcarenite. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 0.9 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 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 Centertown reaches the Gulf of America by way of Dog Branch, the Barren Fork, the Collins, the Caney Fork, the Cumberland, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,460 river miles.
Lake on the way: Bards Lake.
970 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Centertown; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Centertown has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 27° in January. About 58 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Centertown normally reaches 63° and falls to 34°. The record high is 81°, in 1993; the record low 15°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.80 in, fell in 1955.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1954 at Woodbury 1 WNW, 7 miles west-northwest, 110 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
