The Beverly Shores 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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76° on Nov. 11, 2022, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1989. Next is 73° in 1989.
Beverly Shores’s center stands about 660 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 570 ft to 710 ft, a difference of 140 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Antrim Shale (black-shale), from the Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 48×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Black-shale. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Devonian to Carboniferous, 324 to 422 million years old. About 3 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.
Beverly Shores has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 18° in January. A normal year brings about 40 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 39 inches of water.
On November 14 Beverly Shores normally reaches 49° and falls to 35°. The record high is 73°, in 1989; the record low 15°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.29 in, fell in 2024.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1989 at Indiana Dunes National Park, 7 miles southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
