The Hillsboro 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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80° on Nov. 15, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1980. Next is 75° in 1985.
Hillsboro’s center stands about 2,310 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,040 ft to 3,440 ft, a difference of 1,400 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Red Spruce Knob, about 4,720 ft, 13 miles north-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Greenbrier Group (limestone, shale), from the Carboniferous, 324 to 359 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 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.
Limestone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. 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.
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 Hillsboro reaches the Gulf of America by way of Stamping Creek, the Greenbrier, the New River, the Kanawha, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,940 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 Hillsboro; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hillsboro has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° 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 40 inches of water.
On November 14 Hillsboro normally reaches 55° and falls to 32°. The record high is 73°, in 1994; the record low 9°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 0.69 in, fell in 2008.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1980 at Gathright Dam, 19 miles southeast, 540 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
