The Kermit 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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81° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1990. Next is 76° in 2006.
Kermit’s center stands about 650 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 620 ft to 1,340 ft, a difference of 720 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Buffalo Mountain, about 1,890 ft, 14 miles 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 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 19×. 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 6 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone. 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 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 Kermit reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Tug Fork, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,690 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 Kermit; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Kermit has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 24° in January. About 48 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1990 at Inez 2 E, 6 miles west-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
