The Eskridge 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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81° on Nov. 12, 1989, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1897. Next is 79° in 1949.
Eskridge’s center stands about 1,410 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,250 ft to 1,540 ft, a difference of 290 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Gun Barrel Hill, about 1,590 ft, 6 miles west-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Council Grove Group (limestone, shale), from the Permian, 252 to 299 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 40×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Limestone, shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sand, silt. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sand, silt, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 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 Eskridge reaches the Gulf of America by way of Dragoon Creek, Hundred and Ten Mile Creek, the Marais des Cygnes, the Osage, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,800 river miles.
Lake on the way: Pomona 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 Eskridge; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Eskridge has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 18° in January. A normal year brings about 18 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 37 inches of water.
On November 14 Eskridge normally reaches 54° and falls to 32°. The record high is 76°, in 1990; the record low 1°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 3.41 in, fell in 1931.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1897 at Eskridge, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
