The Ravenden Springs 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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5.81 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1871. The next wettest, 5.63 inches, fell in 2011.
Ravenden Springs’s center stands about 430 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 320 ft to 680 ft, a difference of 360 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Divide Hill, about 790 ft, 13 miles west-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Cotter and Jefferson City Dolomites (dolostone), from the Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 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 34×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Dolostone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 21 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 3 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 Ravenden Springs reaches the Gulf of America by way of Hall Creek, Janes Creek, the Spring, the Black River, the White River and the Mississippi: about 970 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 Ravenden Springs; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Ravenden Springs has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 26° in January. A normal year brings about 6 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 52 inches of water.
On November 14 Ravenden Springs normally reaches 59° and falls to 37°. The record high is 80°, in 1931; the record low 12°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 3.81 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1871 at Pocahontas 1, 15 miles east-southeast, 120 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
