The Goff 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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85° on Nov. 13, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1902. Next is 81° in 1914.
Goff’s center stands about 1,220 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,170 ft to 1,390 ft, a difference of 220 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Drift (sand, silt), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 61×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sand, silt. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 24 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 Goff reaches the Gulf of America by way of Spring Creek, Straight Creek, the Delaware, the Kansas, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,660 river miles.
Lake on the way: Perry 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 Goff; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Goff has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in July; winter nights fall to about 15° in January. About 37 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Goff normally reaches 54° and falls to 30°. The record high is 77°, in 1964; the record low 5°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.87 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1902 at Holton, 17 miles south-southeast, 170 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
