The Livingston 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 1904. Next is 15° in 1997.
Livingston’s center stands about 1,010 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 920 ft to 1,440 ft, a difference of 520 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Hampton Mountain, about 2,050 ft, 15 miles south-southeast.
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 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 16×. 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 6 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Chert. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 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 Livingston reaches the Gulf of America by way of Town Creek, Carr Creek, the Roaring, the Cumberland, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,420 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Bards Lake and Cordell Hull Reservoir.
970 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Livingston; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Livingston has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 27° in January. A normal year brings about 16 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 64 inches of water.
On November 14 Livingston normally reaches 56° and falls to 38°. The record high is 72°, in 1954; the record low 17°, in 2014. The most rain on this date, 1.70 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1904 at Monterey, 17 miles south-southeast, 850 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
