The Hooverson Heights 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. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1941. Next is 13° in 1986.
Hooverson Heights’s center stands about 1,010 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 640 ft to 1,240 ft, a difference of 600 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Quakers Knob, about 1,430 ft, 9 miles east.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Conemaugh Group (shale, siltstone, sandstone), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old.
The section below crosses 10 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 25×. 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 6 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone, mudstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 4 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 Hooverson Heights reaches the Gulf of America by way of Cross Creek, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,880 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 Hooverson Heights; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hooverson Heights has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in January. About 43 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Hooverson Heights normally reaches 52° and falls to 32°. The record high is 72°, in 1993; the record low 12°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.13 in, fell in 1997.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1941 at Steubenville, 4 miles northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
