The Kiowa 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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86° on Nov. 16, 2016, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1953. Next is 86° in 2025.
Kiowa’s center stands about 750 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 680 ft to 910 ft, a difference of 230 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Bald Mountain, about 1,450 ft, 13 miles southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Boggy Formation (shale, sandstone), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old.
The section below crosses 10 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 34×. 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, 299 to 324 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 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. 4 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 Kiowa reaches the Gulf of America by way of Fivemile Creek, North Boggy Creek, Muddy Boggy Creek, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 840 river miles.
Lake on the way: Atoka Reservoir.
590 miles of the trip are on the Red River.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Kiowa; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Kiowa has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. About 43 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Kiowa normally reaches 64° and falls to 41°. The record high is 83°, in 1999; the record low 19°, in 1963. The most rain on this date, 3.39 in, fell in 1994.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1953 at Mcalester Regional Airport, 13 miles north-northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
