The Calumet 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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Calumet’s center stands about 1,390 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,350 ft to 1,490 ft, a difference of 140 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Coyote Hill, about 1,580 ft, 9 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Dog Creek Shale, from the Permian, 252 to 299 million years old.
The section below crosses 9 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 44×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Fine-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Conglomerate, shale, siltstone. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 3 smaller units along the line are not listed.
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 Calumet reaches the Gulf of America by way of Sixmile Creek, the North Canadian, the Canadian, the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 1,310 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 Calumet; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
