The Copeland 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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0° on Nov. 12, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1996. Next is 8° in 2018.
Copeland’s center stands about 2,820 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,750 ft to 2,860 ft, a difference of 110 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Loess (silt), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
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.
Silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 24 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 Copeland reaches the Gulf of America by way of Crooked Creek, the Cimarron, the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 1,570 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 Copeland; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Copeland has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 18° in January. A normal year brings about 16 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 22 inches of water.
On November 14 Copeland normally reaches 59° and falls to 29°. The record high is 81°, in 1999; the record low 8°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 0.27 in, fell in 2004.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1996 at Montezuma, 11 miles east-northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
