The Hope 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. 14, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1918. Next is 82° in 2016.
Hope’s center stands about 1,400 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,320 ft to 1,420 ft, a difference of 100 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Sumner Group (shale), from the Permian, 252 to 299 million years old.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
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.
Shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 21 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 3 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 Hope reaches the Gulf of America by way of West Branch Lyon Creek, Lyon Creek, the Kansas, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,760 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 Hope; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hope has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 17° in January. A normal year brings about 13 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 34 inches of water.
On November 14 Hope normally reaches 55° and falls to 31°. The record high is 84°, in 1999; the record low −3°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 2.72 in, fell in 1931.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1918 at Herington, 7 miles east-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
