The Waldron 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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87° on Nov. 14, 1955, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1919. Next is 87° in 2016.
Waldron’s center stands about 650 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 640 ft to 880 ft, a difference of 240 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Wolf Pinnacle, about 2,430 ft, 15 miles south.
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 6 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 6 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 0.5 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 Waldron reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Poteau, the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 1,050 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Murray Lake, Ozark Lake and Wister 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 Waldron; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Waldron has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 28° in January. About 53 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 3 inches of snow.
On November 14 Waldron normally reaches 62° and falls to 38°. The record high is 87°, in 1955; the record low 12°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 2.33 in, fell in 1926.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1919 at Waldron, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
