The Magazine 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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89° on Nov. 17, 2016, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 88° in 1955.
Magazine’s center stands about 480 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 410 ft to 700 ft, a difference of 290 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Signal Hill, about 2,760 ft, 9 miles east.
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 11×. 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 10 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 0.7 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 Magazine reaches the Gulf of America by way of Prairie Branch, the Petit Jean, the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 890 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Murray Lake and Blue Mountain 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 Magazine; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Magazine has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 28° in January. About 52 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Magazine normally reaches 63° and falls to 38°. The record high is 85°, in 1955; the record low 16°, in 1963. The most rain on this date, 0.75 in, fell in 1970.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Booneville 3 SSE, 7 miles west-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
