The Lipscomb 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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88° on Nov. 11, 2014, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1930. Next is 88° in 2025.
Lipscomb’s center stands about 2,400 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,360 ft to 2,550 ft, a difference of 190 ft: gently rolling country.
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 43×. 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 15 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. 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 Lipscomb reaches the Gulf of America by way of Wolf Creek, the North Canadian, the Canadian, the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 1,560 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Canton Lake, 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 Lipscomb; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lipscomb has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 23° in January. A normal year brings about 13 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 23 inches of water.
On November 14 Lipscomb normally reaches 61° and falls to 33°. The record high is 83°, in 2025; the record low 6°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.60 in, fell in 1970.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1930 at Follett, 16 miles north-northeast, 370 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
