The Otis 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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−13° on Nov. 13, 2014, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is −9° in 1919.
Otis’s center stands about 4,340 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,290 ft to 4,430 ft, a difference of 140 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Ogallala Fm (sandstone, conglomerate), from the Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 41×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 24 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.
Otis has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 16° in January. About 16 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Otis normally reaches 52° and falls to 26°. The record high is 78°, in 1999; the record low −6°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 0.35 in, fell in 1926.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Akron 4 E, 10 miles west, 200 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
