The Bassett 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, 1989, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1904. Next is 81° in 1999.
Bassett’s center stands about 960 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 930 ft to 1,050 ft, a difference of 120 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvium (sand, silt, clay), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Limestone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sand, silt, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 0.9 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 Bassett reaches the Gulf of America by way of Elm Creek, the Neosho, the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 1,280 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Murray Lake and Ozark 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 Bassett; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Bassett has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 20° in January. A normal year brings about 7 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 42 inches of water.
On November 14 Bassett normally reaches 57° and falls to 35°. The record high is 77°, in 1964; the record low 10°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 1.04 in, fell in 1909.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1904 at Iola 1 W, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
