The Okeene 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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84° on Nov. 16, 2016, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1902. Next is 83° in 2025.
Okeene’s center stands about 1,220 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,160 ft to 1,260 ft, a difference of 100 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Henquent, about 1,470 ft, 10 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Flowerpot Shale (shale, siltstone), from the Permian, 252 to 299 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 33×. 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, siltstone. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Gypsum, dolostone, shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 0.9 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 Okeene reaches the Gulf of America by way of Spring Creek, the Cimarron, the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 1,280 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 Okeene; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Okeene has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in July; winter nights fall to about 24° in January. About 32 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Okeene normally reaches 61° and falls to 35°. The record high is 83°, in 2025; the record low 12°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.63 in, fell in 1947.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1902 at Watonga, 19 miles south-southwest, 310 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
