Rising average temperatures and increasingly frequent and intense heat waves and events put urban communities in a position of extreme vulnerability. This makes the relatively new field of thermal inequity all the more important in urban contexts. Research has shown the disproportionate impact of intra-urban heat and heat effects on BIPOC and poor communities in cities around the world. Often, in U.S. cities, these disproportionate heat effects are tied to historic racial segregation. Small towns remain almost unexamined in the field of thermal inequity. Carlisle, PA, population 20,118, like most U.S. cities and towns, has a strong history of racial segregation which informs inequity in resource and harm distribution today. In this study I look at racial residential segregation and race as potential determinants of higher mean land surface temperature using USGS Landsat data, census data, and segregation data mapped in conjunction with personal narratives from Black Carlisle residents and Landex development plans. This research is motivated by the importance of informing climate resiliency and equity work in Carlisle, PA with an understanding of heat as an inequitably distributed burden rooted in state-sanctioned race-based violence.