The Hector 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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4.07 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1882. The next wettest, 4.00 inches, fell in 1978.
Hector’s center stands about 750 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 500 ft to 810 ft, a difference of 310 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Raspberry Mountain, about 2,120 ft, 14 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 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 13×. 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 20 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 4 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 Hector reaches the Gulf of America by way of Clear Creek, Hackers Creek, West Fork Point Remove Creek, Pool Hollow Branch, Point Remove Creek, the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 840 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 Hector; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hector has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. About 46 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Hector normally reaches 62° and falls to 40°. The record high is 85°, in 1955; the record low 15°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 1.82 in, fell in 1958.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1882 from the Russellville Area threaded record (Russellville Municipal Airport, 16 miles south-southwest, 370 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
