The Guthrie 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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93° on Nov. 16, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1947. Next is 89° in 1973.
Guthrie’s center stands about 1,770 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,690 ft to 1,890 ft, a difference of 200 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Haystack Mountain, about 2,000 ft, 14 miles south-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Blaine Formation (shale), from the Permian, 252 to 299 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 32×. 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. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 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 Guthrie reaches the Gulf of America by way of the South Wichita, the Wichita, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 1,280 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lake Kemp and Lake Diversion.
870 miles of the trip are on the Red River.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Guthrie; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Guthrie has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 98° in July; winter nights fall to about 27° in January. About 24 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 4 inches of snow.
On November 14 Guthrie normally reaches 67° and falls to 38°. The record high is 86°, in 2025; the record low 12°, in 1976. The most rain on this date, 1.04 in, fell in 1947.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1947 at Guthrie, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
