The Medicine Park 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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92° on Nov. 15, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1912. Next is 86° in 2021.
Medicine Park’s center stands about 1,300 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,240 ft to 2,010 ft, a difference of 770 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Scott, about 2,450 ft, 2 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Wichita Granite Group, from the Middle Cambrian, 497 to 521 million years old.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 17×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Granite. Age: Middle Cambrian, 497 to 521 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Conglomerate. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Gabbro, anorthosite, diorite. Age: Early Cambrian, 521 to 542 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 0.8 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 Medicine Park reaches the Gulf of America by way of Medicine Creek, East Cache Creek, Cache Creek, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 1,110 river miles.
880 miles of the trip are on the Red River.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Medicine Park; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Medicine Park has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 97° in July; winter nights fall to about 27° in January. About 28 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Medicine Park normally reaches 65° and falls to 39°. The record high is 86°, in 2025; the record low 12°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 1.31 in, fell in 1923.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1912 from the Lawton Area threaded record (Lawton Municipal Airport, 13 miles south-southeast, 230 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
