The Sawyer 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.
Sawyer’s center stands about 440 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 380 ft to 520 ft, a difference of 140 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Bull Mountain, about 840 ft, 11 miles northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Kiamichi Formation (shale), from the Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old.
The section below crosses 12 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 51×. 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. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 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. 6 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 Sawyer reaches the Gulf of America by way of South Lake, the Kiamichi, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 700 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 Sawyer; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Sawyer 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 Sawyer 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, 20 miles northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
