The Kelly 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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79° on Nov. 17, 2016, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1951. Next is 76° in 1964.
Kelly’s center stands about 1,230 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,170 ft to 1,340 ft, a difference of 170 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Drift (sand, silt), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 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 64×. 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.
Sand, silt, clay. 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 Kelly reaches the Gulf of America by way of the South Fork Nemaha, the Big Nemaha, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,740 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 Kelly; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Kelly has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 15° in January. About 33 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Kelly normally reaches 53° and falls to 29°. The record high is 75°, in 1964; the record low 4°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.51 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1951 at Frankfort 6 NE, 19 miles west. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
