The Bogue 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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84° on Nov. 17, 2016, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1971. Next is 83° in 1999.
Bogue’s center stands about 2,050 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,990 ft to 2,190 ft, a difference of 200 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvium (sand, silt, clay), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 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 44×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sand, silt, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Arkose. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.4 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 Bogue reaches the Gulf of America by way of the South Fork Solomon, the Solomon, the Smoky Hill, the Kansas, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 2,050 river miles.
Lake on the way: Waconda Lake.
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 Bogue; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Bogue has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 16° in January. A normal year brings about 17 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 24 inches of water.
On November 14 Bogue normally reaches 55° and falls to 27°. The record high is 83°, in 1999; the record low 3°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 0.20 in, fell in 2005.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1971 at Hill City 1 E, 8 miles west. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
