The Biggers 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.
Mostly sunny
Partly cloudy; warmer
Sunny
Sunny
Mostly sunny
Mostly sunny
Mostly sunny
5.81 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1871. The next wettest, 5.63 inches, fell in 2011.
Biggers’s center stands about 280 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 260 ft to 310 ft, a difference of 50 ft: nearly flat ground. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Bald Knob, about 640 ft, 15 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Dune sand, from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 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 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Sandstone, mudstone. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Age: Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 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 Biggers reaches the Gulf of America by way of Murray Creek, the Black River, the White River and the Mississippi: about 990 river miles.
620 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Biggers; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Biggers has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 26° in January. A normal year brings about 6 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 52 inches of water.
On November 14 Biggers normally reaches 59° and falls to 37°. The record high is 80°, in 1931; the record low 12°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 3.81 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1871 at Pocahontas 1, 10 miles west-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
