The Finley 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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5.13 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1918. The next wettest, 3.73 inches, fell in 1985.
Finley’s center stands about 490 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 460 ft to 900 ft, a difference of 440 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Wildcat Mountain, about 1,500 ft, 14 miles north.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Stanley Group or Stanley Shale (shale, sandstone), from the Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old.
The section below crosses 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 24×. 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, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 0.4 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 1 smaller unit 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 Finley reaches the Gulf of America by way of Cedar Creek, the Kiamichi, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 740 river miles.
Lake on the way: South Lake.
550 miles of the trip are on the Red River.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Finley; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Finley has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 28° in January. About 48 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Finley normally reaches 64° and falls to 39°. The record high is 88°, in 1955; the record low 16°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 1.42 in, fell in 1926.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1918 at Antlers, 10 miles southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
