The Verona 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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81° on Nov. 17, 2016, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1972. Next is 81° in 2022.
Verona’s center stands about 1,350 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,230 ft to 1,460 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 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 43×. 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 22 mi of the line.
Limestone, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 0.9 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 Verona reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Spring, the Neosho, the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 1,250 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 Verona; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Verona has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 88° 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 Verona normally reaches 58° and falls to 37°. The record high is 80°, in 1999; the record low 12°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 0.89 in, fell in 1978.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1972 at Monett 4 SW, 12 miles southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
