The Bartley 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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11° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1989. Next is 12° in 2014.
Bartley’s center stands about 1,880 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,280 ft to 2,350 ft, a difference of 1,070 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Sugar Cove Mountain, about 2,920 ft, 10 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows New River Formation (sandstone), 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 10×. 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 17 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 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 Bartley reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Dry Fork, the Tug Fork, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,780 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 Bartley; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Bartley has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 23° in January. A normal year brings about 18 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 45 inches of water.
On November 14 Bartley normally reaches 58° and falls to 31°. The record high is 77°, in 1994; the record low 14°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.21 in, fell in 2024.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1989 at Richlands, 17 miles south. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
