The Branson 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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4.22 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1924. The next wettest, 2.82 inches, fell in 2015.
Branson’s center stands about 1,010 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 700 ft to 1,250 ft, a difference of 550 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Pilot Knob, about 1,460 ft, 15 miles west-southwest.
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 29×. 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 17 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 1 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 Branson reaches the Gulf of America by way of Fall Creek, the White River and the Mississippi: about 1,130 river miles.
620 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Branson; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Branson has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 24° in January. A normal year brings about 7 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 46 inches of water.
On November 14 Branson normally reaches 61° and falls to 36°. The record high is 90°, in 1955; the record low 6°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 3.70 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1924 at Ozark Beach 2 NNE, 11 miles east-northeast, 130 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
