The Park City 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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80° on Nov. 14, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1935. Next is 79° in 1958.
Park City’s center stands about 1,000 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 680 ft to 1,030 ft, a difference of 350 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Hale Mountain, about 1,580 ft, 14 miles east-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Fort Payne Formation and Chattanooga Shale (chert), 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 46×. 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 10 mi of the line.
Limestone, calcarenite. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Limestone, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 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: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.9 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 Park City reaches the Gulf of America by way of Harper Branch, Fowler Creek, the Flint, the Tennessee, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,410 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 Park City; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Park City has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. About 60 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 1 inch of snow.
On November 14 Park City normally reaches 62° and falls to 38°. The record high is 80°, in 1999; the record low 19°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.65 in, fell in 1951.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1935 at Fayetteville Water Plant, 4 miles north-northeast, 260 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
