The Holcomb 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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87° on Nov. 17, 2016, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 84° in 1999.
Holcomb’s center stands about 2,890 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,860 ft to 2,960 ft, a difference of 100 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.
Sand, silt, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Sand, silt, clay. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 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 Holcomb reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 1,590 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Murray Lake and Ozark Lake.
700 miles of the trip are on the Arkansas.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Holcomb; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Holcomb has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 17° in January. A normal year brings about 16 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 20 inches of water.
On November 14 Holcomb normally reaches 58° and falls to 28°. The record high is 84°, in 1999; the record low 0°, in 2014. The most rain on this date, 0.32 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Garden City Experiment Sta, 10 miles east. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
