The Warfield 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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81° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1990. Next is 76° in 2006.
Warfield’s center stands about 930 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 620 ft to 1,310 ft, a difference of 690 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Buffalo Mountain, about 1,890 ft, 15 miles southeast.
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 18×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 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 Warfield reaches the Gulf of America by way of Buck Creek, the Tug Fork, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,690 river miles.
970 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Warfield; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Warfield has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 24° in January. About 48 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1990 at Inez 2 E, 6 miles west-northwest, 220 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
