The North Buena Vista 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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77° on Nov. 13, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1937. Next is 72° in 1964.
North Buena Vista’s center stands about 670 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 600 ft to 1,200 ft, a difference of 600 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Sherrill Mound, about 1,220 ft, 10 miles east-southeast.
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 30×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Dolostone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Late Ordovician to Silurian, 434 to 447 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Shale, dolostone. Age: Late Ordovician, 447 to 454 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Dolostone, limestone. Age: Late Ordovician, 447 to 459 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Dolostone, sandstone. Age: Early Ordovician to Late Ordovician, 454 to 487 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 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 North Buena Vista reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Mississippi: about 1,580 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of North Buena Vista; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
North Buena Vista has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 10° in January. A normal year brings about 34 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 37 inches of water.
On November 14 North Buena Vista normally reaches 47° and falls to 30°. The record high is 71°, in 1990; the record low 4°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.61 in, fell in 1980.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1937 at Guttenberg L And D 10, 10 miles northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
