The Boone 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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83° on Nov. 11, 1971, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1888. Next is 82° in 1989.
Boone’s center stands about 4,490 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,430 ft to 4,670 ft, a difference of 240 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Hooker Hills, about 4,860 ft, 9 miles south-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Pierre Shale--Middle unit, from the Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 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 31×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sand, silt. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Gravel, unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene, 0.2 to 1.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Gravel, unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene, less than 0.5 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 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 Boone reaches the Gulf of America by way of Haynes Creek, the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 1,830 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Murray Lake and Ozark Lake.
940 miles of the trip are on the Arkansas.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Boone; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Boone has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in July; winter nights fall to about 15° in January. A normal year brings about 28 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 12 inches of water.
On November 14 Boone normally reaches 57° and falls to 25°. The record high is 82°, in 1990; the record low −8°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 0.68 in, fell in 1985.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1888 from the Pueblo Area threaded record (Pueblo Memorial Airport, 14 miles west, 180 ft higher). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
