The Kenton 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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Kenton’s center stands about 4,330 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,250 ft to 4,950 ft, a difference of 700 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Big Canyon Mesa, about 5,160 ft, 10 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Morrison Formation (sandstone, limestone, dolostone), from the Late Jurassic, 145 to 164 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 23×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone, limestone, dolostone. Age: Late Jurassic, 145 to 164 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sandstone, mudstone, conglomerate. Age: Middle Triassic to Late Triassic, 202 to 247 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, shale. Age: Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, 140 to 164 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 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. 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 Kenton reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Cimarron, the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 1,700 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Murray Lake and Ozark Lake.
600 miles of the trip are on the Cimarron.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Kenton; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
