The Thurman 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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83° on Nov. 14, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1933. Next is 78° in 2001.
Thurman’s center stands about 980 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 930 ft to 1,250 ft, a difference of 320 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is King Hill, about 1,190 ft, 7 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Wabaunsee Group (shale, mudstone), from the Late Pennsylvanian, 299 to 307 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 55×. 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, mudstone. Age: Late Pennsylvanian, 299 to 307 million years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Late Pennsylvanian, 299 to 307 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Shale, mudstone. Age: Late Pennsylvanian, 299 to 307 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone, limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 0.9 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Late Pennsylvanian, 299 to 307 million years old. About 0.8 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 Thurman reaches the Gulf of America by way of Skunk Creek, Plum Creek, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,740 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 Thurman; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Thurman has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in July; winter nights fall to about 14° in January. A normal year brings about 24 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 34 inches of water.
On November 14 Thurman normally reaches 52° and falls to 30°. The record high is 83°, in 1999; the record low 2°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 0.83 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1933 at Nebraska City 2 NW, 11 miles southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
