The Apple Grove 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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12° on Nov. 14, 1986, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1912. Next is 13° in 1957.
Apple Grove’s center stands about 580 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 530 ft to 890 ft, a difference of 360 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Rich Knob, about 1,050 ft, 14 miles south.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Quaternary Alluvium (fine-detrital, coarse-detrital), from the Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old.
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 42×. 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, mudstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone, mudstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous to Permian, 252 to 324 million years old. About 0.3 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 Apple Grove reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,660 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 Apple Grove; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Apple Grove has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 23° in January. About 44 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Apple Grove normally reaches 57° and falls to 34°. The record high is 79°, in 1993; the record low 12°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.42 in, fell in 2024.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1912 at Gallipolis, 11 miles north. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
