The Liberty 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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12° on Nov. 12, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1996. Next is 15° in 2018.
Liberty’s center stands about 760 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 730 ft to 880 ft, a difference of 150 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Bender Mounds, about 1,020 ft, 14 miles north-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Kansas City Group (limestone, shale), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 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 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 12 mi of the line.
Sand, silt, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 0.6 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 Liberty reaches the Gulf of America by way of Big Hill Creek, the Verdigris, the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 1,170 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Oologah Lake, 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 Liberty; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Liberty has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 24° in January. About 40 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1996 at Coffeyville Municipal Airport, 5 miles south-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
