The Pleasant Plains 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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4.80 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1904. The next wettest, 4.09 inches, fell in 1987.
Pleasant Plains’s center stands about 600 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 420 ft to 770 ft, a difference of 350 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Brock Mountain, about 1,230 ft, 14 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Bloyd Shale, and Prairie Grove Member of the Hale Formation (shale, sandstone), 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 25×. 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. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 11 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 Pleasant Plains reaches the Gulf of America by way of Tenmile Creek, the Little Red, the White River and the Mississippi: about 860 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 Pleasant Plains; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Pleasant Plains has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 28° in January. About 51 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 2 inches of snow.
On November 14 Pleasant Plains normally reaches 61° and falls to 39°. The record high is 82°, in 1955; the record low 17°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 2.27 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1904 at Batesville L&D 1, 14 miles north, 310 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
