The Guy 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.
Guy’s center stands about 680 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 480 ft to 790 ft, a difference of 310 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Hunter Mountain, about 1,210 ft, 12 miles north.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Atoka Formation, undivided (sandstone, black-shale), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 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 23×. 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, black-shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 2 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 Guy reaches the Gulf of America by way of Wolf Branch, Cadron Creek, the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 820 river miles.
Lake on the way: 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 Guy; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Guy 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 Guy 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, 18 miles south-southwest, 370 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
