The Johnson Village 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.
Mostly cloudy
Mostly sunny
Partly cloudy
Chance of showers
Mostly sunny
Chance of showers
Showers likely
78° on Nov. 16, 1949, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1899. Next is 71° in 1999.
Johnson Village’s center stands about 7,850 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 7,730 ft to 9,250 ft, a difference of 1,520 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Harvard, about 14,320 ft, 14 miles northwest.
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 8 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 4×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Granite. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2.5 billion years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Mafic-hypabyssal, felsic-hypabyssal. Age: Eocene to Miocene, 5.3 to 56 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Gravel, unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene, less than 0.5 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Gravel, unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene, 0.2 to 1.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Andesite. Age: Late Eocene to Early Oligocene, 30 to 35 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Volcanic. Age: Late Eocene, 35 to 36 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. 2 smaller units 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 Johnson Village reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 1,990 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Murray Lake and Ozark Lake.
1,090 miles of the trip are on the Arkansas.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Johnson Village; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Johnson Village has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 11° in January. A normal year brings about 49 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 10 inches of water.
On November 14 Johnson Village normally reaches 50° and falls to 20°. The record high is 72°, in 1949; the record low −15°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 0.20 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1899 at Buena Vista 2 S, here, 100 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
