The Haviland 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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1° on Nov. 13, 2018, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 2° in 1916.
Haviland’s center stands about 2,150 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,110 ft to 2,190 ft, a difference of 80 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Dune Sand, 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 59×. 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. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Sand, silt, clay. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone, black-shale. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand, silt, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.8 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.
Haviland has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in January. A normal year brings about 16 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 26 inches of water.
On November 14 Haviland normally reaches 57° and falls to 30°. The record high is 84°, in 1988; the record low 2°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 0.60 in, fell in 1926.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Greensburg, 11 miles west. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
