The Junction City 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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5° on Nov. 12, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1965. Next is 6° in 1986.
Junction City’s center stands about 1,110 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,050 ft to 1,290 ft, a difference of 240 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Custer Hill, about 1,360 ft, 6 miles north.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvium (sand, silt, clay), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 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 52×. 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, limestone. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Sand, silt, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.6 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 Junction City reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Republican, the Kansas, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,700 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 Junction City; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Junction City has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in January. About 33 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Junction City normally reaches 55° and falls to 33°. The record high is 83°, in 1999; the record low 7°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 0.25 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1965 at Milford Lake, 5 miles northwest, 100 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
