The Nara Visa 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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2° on Nov. 16, 2014, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1941. Next is 7° in 1997.
Nara Visa’s center stands about 4,180 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,040 ft to 4,350 ft, a difference of 310 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Kerlin Hill, about 4,520 ft, 6 miles northwest.
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 22×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sand. Age: Middle Miocene to Early Pliocene, 3.6 to 16 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 0.1 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Siltstone-mudstone. Age: Middle Triassic to Late Triassic, 208 to 247 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 12 million years old. About 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 Nara Visa reaches the Gulf of America by way of West Fork Nara Visa Arroyo, the Canadian, the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 1,660 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Murray Lake and Ozark Lake.
670 miles of the trip are on the Canadian.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Nara Visa; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Nara Visa has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 20° in January. About 16 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 4 inches of snow.
On November 14 Nara Visa normally reaches 60° and falls to 29°. The record high is 80°, in 2017; the record low 13°, in 2000. The most rain on this date, 2.00 in, fell in 1961.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1941 at Bravo, 6 miles east. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
