The Philippi 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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82° on Nov. 17, 1958, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1922. Next is 79° in 1993.
Philippi’s center stands about 1,310 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,300 ft to 1,980 ft, a difference of 680 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Thorn Knob, about 2,910 ft, 11 miles east-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Allegheny Formation (sandstone, siltstone, shale), 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 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.
Shale, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 0.6 mi of the line.
Siltstone, sandstone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 0.4 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 0.3 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 Philippi reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Tygart Valley, the Monongahela, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 2,120 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 Philippi; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Philippi has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 24° in January. About 45 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Philippi normally reaches 56° and falls to 36°. The record high is 77°, in 1955; the record low 12°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.43 in, fell in 2007.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1922 from the Clarksburg Area threaded record (Clarksburg Benedum Airport, 14 miles northwest, 100 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
