The Kingwood 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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75° on Nov. 17, 1958, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1928. Next is 72° in 1928.
Kingwood’s center stands about 1,810 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,220 ft to 2,300 ft, a difference of 1,080 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Brushy Knobs, about 3,270 ft, 11 miles southeast.
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 7 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, siltstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Siltstone, sandstone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone. 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. 1 smaller unit 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 Kingwood reaches the Gulf of America by way of South Fork Greens Run, Greens Run, the Cheat, the Monongahela, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 2,070 river miles.
970 miles of the trip are on the Ohio.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Kingwood; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Kingwood has a cold desert climate. Summer afternoons average 79° in July; winter nights fall to about 17° in January. Barely 0.0 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Kingwood normally reaches 49° and falls to 30°. The record high is 67°, in 1958; the record low 7°, in 2024. The most rain on this date, 0.81 in, fell in 1945.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1928 at Sines Deep Creek, 15 miles east-northeast, 230 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
