The Stinnett 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. 16, 2021, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1949. Next is 85° in 1966.
Stinnett’s center stands about 3,180 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 3,030 ft to 3,330 ft, a difference of 300 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Ogallala Formation (sand), from the Late Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 12 million years old.
The section below crosses 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 27×. 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 17 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone-mudstone. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 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. 1 smaller unit along the line are not listed.
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 Stinnett reaches the Gulf of America by way of Tar Box Creek, the Canadian, the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 1,520 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 Stinnett; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Stinnett has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 96° in July; winter nights fall to about 28° in January. About 19 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Stinnett normally reaches 63° and falls to 37°. The record high is 85°, in 2025; the record low 8°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.88 in, fell in 2001.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1949 from the Borger Area threaded record (Borger Hutchinson County Airport, 9 miles south-southeast, 140 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
