The Pleasant View 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.
Sunny
Mostly sunny; warmer
Sunny
Sunny
Mostly sunny
Mostly sunny
Mostly sunny
82° on Nov. 11, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1936. Next is 81° in 2002.
Pleasant View’s center stands about 700 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 530 ft to 800 ft, a difference of 270 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Pinhook Hill, about 880 ft, 12 miles 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 4 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.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 17 mi of the line.
Chert. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.5 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 0.4 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 Pleasant View reaches the Gulf of America by way of Spring Creek, Sycamore Creek, the Cumberland, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,190 river miles.
Lake on the way: Bards 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 Pleasant View; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Pleasant View has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 28° in January. About 51 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 1 inch of snow.
On November 14 Pleasant View normally reaches 61° and falls to 37°. The record high is 79°, in 2010; the record low 13°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 2.43 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1936 at Cheatham Lock & Dam, 11 miles west-southwest, 310 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
