The Fountain Hill 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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12° on Nov. 12, 1987, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1915. Next is 14° in 1940.
Fountain Hill’s center stands about 200 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 130 ft to 240 ft, a difference of 110 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Terrace deposits (coarse-detrital, fine-detrital), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 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: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Marl. Age: Late Eocene, 34 to 38 million years old. About 0.9 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 Fountain Hill reaches the Gulf of America by way of Fountain Creek, the Saline, the Ouachita, the Black River, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 440 river miles.
190 miles of the trip are on the Ouachita.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Fountain Hill; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Fountain Hill has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 95° in July; winter nights fall to about 34° in January. About 57 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Fountain Hill normally reaches 68° and falls to 42°. The record high is 87°, in 1955; the record low 17°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 2.50 in, fell in 1915.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1915 at Crossett 2 SSE, 18 miles south-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
