The Dante 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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10° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1989. Next is 12° in 2014.
Dante’s center stands about 1,870 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,780 ft to 2,900 ft, a difference of 1,120 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Robinson Knob, about 3,340 ft, 15 miles west-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Norton Formation (shale, siltstone), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 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 13×. 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, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 21 mi of the line.
Arenite, sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 0.7 mi of the line.
Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 0.5 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 Dante reaches the Gulf of America by way of Lick Creek, the Clinch, the Tennessee, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,820 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 Dante; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Dante has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 23° in January. A normal year brings about 12 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 46 inches of water.
On November 14 Dante normally reaches 58° and falls to 31°. The record high is 73°, in 1994; the record low 10°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.42 in, fell in 2008.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1989 at Lebanon, 15 miles east-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
