The Crab Orchard 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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75° on Nov. 17, 2016, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1954. Next is 74° in 1955.
Crab Orchard’s center stands about 1,810 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,610 ft to 2,670 ft, a difference of 1,060 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Hinch Mountain, about 3,030 ft, 10 miles south-southwest.
The section below crosses 8 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 10×. 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, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Conglomerate. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 0.6 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 0.6 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 2 smaller units along the line are not listed.
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 Crab Orchard reaches the Gulf of America by way of Baker Branch, Daddys Creek, the Obed, the Emory, the Tennessee, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,630 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Guntersville Lake, White Lake (historical), Pickwick Lake and Cummings 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 Crab Orchard; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Crab Orchard has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 26° in January. About 58 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Crab Orchard normally reaches 57° and falls to 36°. The record high is 73°, in 1994; the record low 12°, in 1969. The most rain on this date, 1.20 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1954 at Crossville Memorial Airport, 11 miles west-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
