The Conway 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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85° on Nov. 16, 1941, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1890. Next is 85° in 1955.
Conway’s center stands about 320 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 270 ft to 500 ft, a difference of 230 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is High Point, about 830 ft, 12 miles south-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Atoka Formation - Upper part (sandstone, shale), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 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 34×. 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, 299 to 324 million years old. About 17 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 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.
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 Conway reaches the Gulf of America by way of Stone Dam Creek, Palarm Creek, the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 770 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Greens Lake (historical) and Murray Lake.
600 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Conway; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Conway has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 27° in January. About 51 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 2 inches of snow.
On November 14 Conway normally reaches 61° and falls to 38°. The record high is 84°, in 1955; the record low 15°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 2.34 in, fell in 1926.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1890 at Conway, 3 miles west-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
