The Galatia 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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82° on Nov. 16, 2016, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1949. Next is 81° in 1999.
Galatia’s center stands about 2,000 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,910 ft to 2,020 ft, a difference of 110 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvium (sand, silt, clay), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 57×. 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, chalk. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sand, silt, clay. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand, silt, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 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 Galatia reaches the Gulf of America by way of Landon Creek, the Smoky Hill, the Kansas, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,980 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 Galatia; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Galatia has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in January. About 25 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Galatia normally reaches 56° and falls to 30°. The record high is 80°, in 2025; the record low 3°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.60 in, fell in 1968.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1949 at Russell Municipal Airport, 18 miles north-northeast, 140 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
