The Hoehne 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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79° on Nov. 12, 1971, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 79° in 1973.
Hoehne’s center stands about 5,730 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 5,640 ft to 5,900 ft, a difference of 260 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Fishers Peak, about 9,620 ft, 13 miles south-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Pierre Shale, undivided, from the Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 10×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Arkose, siltstone, shale. Age: Late Cretaceous to Paleocene, 56 to 100 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Gravel, unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene, 0.2 to 1.6 million years old. About 1 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 Hoehne reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Purgatoire, the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 1,890 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Murray Lake and Ozark Lake.
850 miles of the trip are on the Arkansas.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Hoehne; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hoehne has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in January. About 13 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Hoehne normally reaches 57° and falls to 27°. The record high is 78°, in 1990; the record low 0°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.46 in, fell in 1961.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Trinidad Airport, 3 miles east-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
