The Bennett Springs 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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3° on Nov. 13, 1986, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1931. Next is 3° in 2018.
Bennett Springs’s center stands about 1,030 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 850 ft to 1,180 ft, a difference of 330 ft: rolling country.
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 33×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Dolostone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Sandstone, chert. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 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 Bennett Springs reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Niangua, the Osage, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,470 river miles.
1,170 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Bennett Springs; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Bennett Springs has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 20° in January. A normal year brings about 9 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 45 inches of water.
On November 14 Bennett Springs normally reaches 57° and falls to 33°. The record high is 77°, in 1964; the record low 3°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 3.53 in, fell in 1985.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1931 at Buffalo 2 N, 14 miles west-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
