The Ronceverte 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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79° on Nov. 15, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1888. Next is 78° in 1927.
Ronceverte’s center stands about 1,820 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,650 ft to 2,360 ft, a difference of 710 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Keeney Knob, about 3,930 ft, 13 miles west.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Pocono Group (sandstone), from the Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old.
The section below crosses 8 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 11×. 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 8 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Siltstone, sandstone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 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. 2 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 Ronceverte reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Greenbrier, the New River, the Kanawha, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,890 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 Ronceverte; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Ronceverte has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 21° in January. A normal year brings about 18 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 41 inches of water.
On November 14 Ronceverte normally reaches 55° and falls to 29°. The record high is 75°, in 1985; the record low 8°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.19 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1888 at White Sulphur Springs, 9 miles east-northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
