The Miston 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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86° on Nov. 13, 1955, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 83° in 1964.
Miston’s center stands about 270 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 260 ft to 280 ft, a difference of 20 ft: nearly flat ground.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvial deposits (fine-detrital, coarse-detrital), from the Quaternary, less than 2.6 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 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Silt. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Clay, silt, sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Tertiary to Quaternary, less than 66 million years old. About 0.3 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 Miston reaches the Gulf of America by way of Running Reelfoot Bayou, the Obion and the Mississippi: about 870 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Miston; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Miston has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. About 55 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Miston normally reaches 60° and falls to 40°. The record high is 82°, in 1955; the record low 17°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 3.00 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Caruthersville, 9 miles west-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
