The Lawrenceburg 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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14° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1954. Next is 15° in 1968.
Lawrenceburg’s center stands about 890 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 780 ft to 1,010 ft, a difference of 230 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Oak Hill, about 1,040 ft, 6 miles east-northeast.
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 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 43×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Chert. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 17 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 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.
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 Lawrenceburg reaches the Gulf of America by way of Shoal Creek, the Tennessee, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,340 river miles.
Lakes on the way: 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 Lawrenceburg; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lawrenceburg has a cold desert climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 28° in January. Barely 0.0 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Lawrenceburg normally reaches 61° and falls to 37°. The record high is 80°, in 1999; the record low 19°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.45 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1954 at Lawrenceburg Filt Plant, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
