The Miller 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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5.76 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1903. The next wettest, 4.20 inches, fell in 1909.
Miller’s center stands about 1,300 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,120 ft to 1,350 ft, a difference of 230 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Osagean Series (limestone), from the Carboniferous, 324 to 359 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 50×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 20 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone, mudstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 0.4 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 Miller reaches the Gulf of America by way of Stahl Creek, the Spring, the Neosho, the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 1,240 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Murray Lake and Ozark Lake.
600 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Miller; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Miller has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 22° in January. A normal year brings about 13 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 47 inches of water.
On November 14 Miller normally reaches 58° and falls to 35°. The record high is 82°, in 1999; the record low 8°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 4.05 in, fell in 1985.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1903 at Lockwood, 14 miles north-northwest, 220 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
