The Bledsoe 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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5° on Nov. 14, 1976, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1935. Next is 12° in 2014.
Bledsoe’s center stands about 3,970 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 3,920 ft to 3,990 ft, a difference of 70 ft: gently rolling country.
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 62×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene, 0.1 to 2.6 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 0.8 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 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.
Bledsoe has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 24° in January. A normal year brings about 6 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 18 inches of water.
On November 14 Bledsoe normally reaches 64° and falls to 33°. The record high is 85°, in 1973; the record low 5°, in 1976. The most rain on this date, 1.16 in, fell in 1961.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1935 at Morton, 16 miles east-northeast, 200 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
