The Highland Park 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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92° on Nov. 11, 2023, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1935. Next is 90° in 1957.
Highland Park’s center stands about 110 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 100 ft to 220 ft, a difference of 120 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Iron Mountain, about 330 ft, 5 miles north.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Cypresshead Formation (sand), from the Late Pliocene, 2.6 to 3.6 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 64×. 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 Pliocene, 2.6 to 3.6 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 3.6 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 3.6 million years old. About 2 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.
Highland Park has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 50° in January. About 53 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Highland Park normally reaches 80° and falls to 58°. The record high is 89°, in 2018; the record low 34°, in 1968. The most rain on this date, 2.44 in, fell in 1954.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1935 at Mountain Lake, 6 miles north-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
