The Parrottsville 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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84° on Nov. 14, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1891. Next is 82° in 1958.
Parrottsville’s center stands about 1,190 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,070 ft to 1,450 ft, a difference of 380 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Laurel Mountain, about 4,340 ft, 14 miles south-southeast.
The section below crosses 9 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.
Shale. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Sandstone, arkose, conglomerate. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone. Age: Cambrian to Ordovician, 445 to 542 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Age: Precambrian. About 1 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 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. 3 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 Parrottsville reaches the Gulf of America by way of Clear Creek, the French Broad, the Tennessee, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,740 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 Parrottsville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Parrottsville has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 28° in January. About 47 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 3 inches of snow.
On November 14 Parrottsville normally reaches 62° and falls to 35°. The record high is 84°, in 1993; the record low 17°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 0.97 in, fell in 1915.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1891 at Newport 1 NW, 6 miles west-southwest, 150 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
