The Lake Meredith Estates 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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Mostly sunny; warmer
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9° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1993. Next is 12° in 2014.
Lake Meredith Estates’s center stands about 3,130 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,840 ft to 3,210 ft, a difference of 370 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Hackberry Mesa, about 3,350 ft, 15 miles southwest.
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.
Sand. Age: Late Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 12 million years old. About 20 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sandstone-mudstone. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 0.8 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 Lake Meredith Estates reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Canadian, the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 1,530 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Murray Lake and Ozark Lake.
600 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Lake Meredith Estates; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lake Meredith Estates has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 97° in July; winter nights fall to about 21° in January. About 19 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Lake Meredith Estates normally reaches 63° and falls to 31°. The record high is 85°, in 2007; the record low 14°, in 2014. The most rain on this date, 0.42 in, fell in 2004.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1993 at Sanford Dam, 4 miles northeast, 190 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
