The Strong City 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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89° on Nov. 17, 2017, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1904. Next is 85° in 1988.
Strong City’s center stands about 1,890 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,820 ft to 2,030 ft, a difference of 210 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Benham Hill, about 2,140 ft, 11 miles north.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Cloud Chief Formation (shale, siltstone, sandstone), from the Permian, 252 to 299 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 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, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Pliocene, 2.6 to 5.3 million 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.
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 Strong City reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Washita, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 1,320 river miles.
Lake on the way: Foss Reservoir.
680 miles of the trip are on the Red River.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Strong City; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Strong City has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 95° in July; winter nights fall to about 26° in January. A normal year brings about 9 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 30 inches of water.
On November 14 Strong City normally reaches 62° and falls to 37°. The record high is 85°, in 1988; the record low 12°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.49 in, fell in 1970.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1904 at Elk City 4 W, 20 miles south-southeast, 230 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
