The Anawalt 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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13° on Nov. 14, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1940. Next is 14° in 2014.
Anawalt’s center stands about 1,880 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,590 ft to 2,720 ft, a difference of 1,130 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Chimney Rock, about 4,370 ft, 12 miles south.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Bluestone and Princeton Formations (sandstone, shale), from the Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old.
The section below crosses 12 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 8×. 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: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Dolostone, limestone. Age: Cambrian to Ordovician, 445 to 542 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone, mudstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone, limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 6 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 Anawalt reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Tug Fork, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,810 river miles.
970 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Anawalt; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Anawalt has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 85° in July; winter nights fall to about 22° in January. About 49 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Anawalt normally reaches 57° and falls to 31°. The record high is 81°, in 1993; the record low 13°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.75 in, fell in 2008.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1940 at Mullens 3 E, 18 miles north-northeast, 320 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
