The White Sulphur Springs 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.
White Sulphur Springs’s center stands about 1,890 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,800 ft to 3,220 ft, a difference of 1,420 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Jingling Rocks, about 3,580 ft, 10 miles east-southeast.
The section below crosses 14 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 5 mi of the line.
Siltstone, sandstone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, 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. 8 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 White Sulphur Springs reaches the Gulf of America by way of Howard Creek, the Greenbrier, the New River, the Kanawha, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,900 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 White Sulphur Springs; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
White Sulphur Springs 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 White Sulphur Springs 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, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
