The Hunter 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. 14, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1964. Next is 81° in 2016.
Hunter’s center stands about 1,600 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,550 ft to 1,810 ft, a difference of 260 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Williams Butte, about 1,820 ft, 3 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Carlile Shale (shale, chalk), from the Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 39×. 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 12 mi of the line.
Silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 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 Hunter reaches the Gulf of America by way of Bacon Creek, Spillman Creek, the Saline, the Smoky Hill, the Kansas, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,930 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 Hunter; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hunter has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 14° in January. About 26 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Hunter normally reaches 55° and falls to 27°. The record high is 81°, in 1999; the record low 3°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 0.19 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1964 at Glen Elder Lake, 19 miles north-northeast, 100 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
