The Frankewing 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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12° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1957. Next is 15° in 1969.
Frankewing’s center stands about 710 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 650 ft to 1,030 ft, a difference of 380 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Welch Hill, about 1,250 ft, 15 miles north-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Ordovician [units] including Richmond Group (which includes Mannie Shale, Fernvale Limestone, Sequatchie Formation, and Arnheim Formation), the Maysville Group (which includes Leipers Formation), the Eden Group (which includes Inman Formation), and the Nashville Group (which includes Catheys Formation) (shale, limestone), from the Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 31×. 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, limestone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Limestone, calcarenite. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Chert. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 0.5 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 Frankewing reaches the Gulf of America by way of Bradshaw Creek, the Elk River, the Tennessee, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,360 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Guntersville Lake, White Lake (historical) and Pickwick 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 Frankewing; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Frankewing has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 25° in January. About 59 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 2 inches of snow.
On November 14 Frankewing normally reaches 61° and falls to 33°. The record high is 80°, in 1964; the record low 12°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.21 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1957 at Pulaski Wastewater Plant, 11 miles west. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
