The Fowler 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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84° on Nov. 15, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1915. Next is 82° in 1989.
Fowler’s center stands about 4,340 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,290 ft to 4,570 ft, a difference of 280 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Hooker Hills, about 4,860 ft, 15 miles west.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Gravels and alluviums (gravel, unconsolidated), from the Pleistocene, less than 0.5 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 39×. 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 8 mi of the line.
Gravel, unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene, less than 0.5 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Gravel, unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene, 0.2 to 1.6 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 0.3 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 Fowler reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 1,810 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Murray Lake and Ozark Lake.
920 miles of the trip are on the Arkansas.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Fowler; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Fowler has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in July; winter nights fall to about 12° in January. A normal year brings about 14 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 11 inches of water.
On November 14 Fowler normally reaches 57° and falls to 22°. The record high is 78°, in 2025; the record low 10°, in 2022. The most rain on this date, 0.71 in, fell in 1985.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1915 at Ordway 4 W, 13 miles east-northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
