The Pierceville 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. 16, 2016, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1947. Next is 83° in 2025.
Pierceville’s center stands about 2,760 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,730 ft to 2,870 ft, a difference of 140 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 3 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 13 mi of the line.
Sand, silt, clay. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 10 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 Pierceville reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 1,570 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Murray Lake and Ozark Lake.
680 miles of the trip are on the Arkansas.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Pierceville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Pierceville has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 18° in January. About 19 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Pierceville normally reaches 57° and falls to 28°. The record high is 83°, in 2025; the record low 13°, in 2022. The most rain on this date, 0.40 in, fell in 1968.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1947 at Garden City Regional Airport, 4 miles northwest, 120 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
