The Shoal Creek Estates 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. 14, 2018, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1973. Next is 13° in 2019.
Shoal Creek Estates’s center stands about 1,030 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 890 ft to 1,150 ft, a difference of 260 ft: rolling country.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 48×. 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 18 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 6 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 Shoal Creek Estates reaches the Gulf of America by way of Shoal Creek, the Spring, the Neosho, the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 1,170 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 Shoal Creek Estates; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Shoal Creek Estates has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 22° in January. About 47 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Shoal Creek Estates normally reaches 60° and falls to 35°. The record high is 80°, in 1999; the record low 11°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 2.00 in, fell in 1985.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1973 at Diamond 2 W, 8 miles east-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
