The Parmelee 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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Parmelee’s center stands about 2,640 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,550 ft to 2,800 ft, a difference of 250 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Eagle Mans Butte, about 3,140 ft, 10 miles west.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Arikaree Group (siltstone, sandstone), from the Oligocene to Miocene, 5.3 to 34 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 18×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Siltstone, sandstone. Age: Oligocene to Miocene, 5.3 to 34 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Claystone, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Eocene to Oligocene, 23 to 56 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Silt, sand. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone, limestone, siltstone. Age: Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, clay. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 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.
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 Parmelee reaches the Gulf of America by way of Cut Meat Creek, the Little White, the White River, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 2,300 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lake Francis Case and Lewis and Clark Lake.
1,170 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Parmelee; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
