The Akron 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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80° on Nov. 14, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 79° in 1953.
Akron’s center stands about 1,160 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,120 ft to 1,360 ft, a difference of 240 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Fort Benton Group (shale), from the Late Cretaceous, 90 to 100 million years old.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 53×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 90 to 100 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous, 94 to 113 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Shale, mudstone, marlstone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 0.9 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 Akron reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Big Sioux, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,940 river miles.
1,170 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Akron; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Akron has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 10° in January. About 28 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Akron normally reaches 49° and falls to 26°. The record high is 80°, in 2025; the record low −24°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 1.26 in, fell in 1926.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Vermillion 2 SE, 19 miles west-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
