The Crum 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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3.28 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1971. The next wettest, 2.09 inches, fell in 2020.
Crum’s center stands about 900 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 610 ft to 1,270 ft, a difference of 660 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Antley Knob, about 1,840 ft, 7 miles east-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Kanawha Formation (sandstone), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 18×. 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 13 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 0.9 mi of the line.
Sand, silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.4 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 Crum reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Tug Fork, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,680 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 Crum; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Crum has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 26° in January. A normal year brings about 17 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 49 inches of water.
On November 14 Crum normally reaches 56° and falls to 36°. The record high is 75°, in 1989; the record low 1°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 0.63 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1971 at Dunlow 1 SW, 4 miles northeast, 210 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
