The Matfield Green 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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Matfield Green’s center stands about 1,330 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,270 ft to 1,490 ft, a difference of 220 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Texaco Hill, about 1,630 ft, 11 miles east-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Council Grove Group (limestone, shale), from the Permian, 252 to 299 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 55×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Shale, limestone. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 18 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sand, silt, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.3 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 Matfield Green reaches the Gulf of America by way of the South Fork Cottonwood, the Cottonwood, the Neosho, the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 1,440 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 Matfield Green; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
