The Rogers 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. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1961. Next is 75° in 2022.
Rogers’s center stands about 1,080 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 970 ft to 1,280 ft, a difference of 310 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Round Knob, about 1,440 ft, 8 miles south-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 28×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Shale, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone, mudstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.2 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 Rogers reaches the Gulf of America by way of Little Bull Creek, Bull Creek, North Fork Little Beaver Creek, Little Beaver Creek, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,930 river miles.
970 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Rogers; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Rogers has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 21° in January. About 41 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Rogers normally reaches 51° and falls to 34°. The record high is 71°, in 1994; the record low 8°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 0.89 in, fell in 1997.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1961 at Montgomery Lock & Dam, 16 miles southeast, 390 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
