The Bloomfield 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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11° on Nov. 17, 1959, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1950. Next is 17° in 2019.
Bloomfield’s center stands about 450 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 380 ft to 580 ft, a difference of 200 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Tertiary system (sand, clay, gravel), from the Paleocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 66 million years old.
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 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.
Clay, silt, sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Sand, clay, gravel. Age: Paleocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 66 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 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 Bloomfield reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Saint Francis and the Mississippi: about 980 river miles.
690 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Bloomfield; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Bloomfield has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 28° in January. About 50 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 3 inches of snow.
On November 14 Bloomfield normally reaches 59° and falls to 39°. The record high is 79°, in 1978; the record low 18°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.34 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1950 at Sikeston Power Station, 17 miles east, 140 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
