The Rupert 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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78° on Nov. 13, 1911, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1852. Next is 78° in 1993.
Rupert’s center stands about 2,440 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,400 ft to 3,440 ft, a difference of 1,040 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Grassy Knob, about 4,380 ft, 12 miles northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Quaternary Alluvium (fine-detrital, coarse-detrital), from the Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 9×. 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, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 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 0.8 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 Rupert reaches the Gulf of America by way of Big Clear Creek, the Meadow, the Gauley, the Kanawha, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,850 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 Rupert; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Rupert has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 20° in January. A normal year brings about 30 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 42 inches of water.
On November 14 Rupert normally reaches 53° and falls to 29°. The record high is 78°, in 1993; the record low 7°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.14 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1852 at Lewisburg 3 N, 17 miles east-southeast, 140 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
