The Fairchild 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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Fairchild’s center stands about 1,060 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,020 ft to 1,200 ft, a difference of 180 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is South Mound, about 1,450 ft, 13 miles northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Cambrian, undivided (sandstone), from the Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 50×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 24 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 Fairchild reaches the Gulf of America by way of Schoolhouse Creek, Black Creek, Coon Fork Creek, Whippoorwill Creek, the Eau Claire, the Chippewa and the Mississippi: about 1,850 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Fairchild; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
