The Mountain View 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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6.47 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1924. The next wettest, 5.11 inches, fell in 2003.
Mountain View’s center stands about 770 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 540 ft to 1,310 ft, a difference of 770 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Strand Knob, about 1,840 ft, 14 miles west.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Pitkin Limestone, Fayetteville Shale (including the Wedington Sandstone member), and Batesville Sandstone (including the Hindsville Limestone Member) (sandstone, shale, limestone), from the Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old.
The section below crosses 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 16×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale, limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Middle Ordovician to Late Ordovician, 445 to 471 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone, dolostone. Age: Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 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. 1 smaller unit along the line are not listed.
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 Mountain View reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Mill Prong, Rocky Bayou, the White River and the Mississippi: about 960 river miles.
620 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Mountain View; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Mountain View has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 28° in January. About 52 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 5 inches of snow.
On November 14 Mountain View normally reaches 61° and falls to 39°. The record high is 79°, in 1990; the record low 12°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 0.83 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1924 at Mountain View, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
