The Ness 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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2° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1965. Next is 6° in 2018.
Ness City’s center stands about 2,260 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,210 ft to 2,340 ft, a difference of 130 ft: gently rolling country.
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 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 53×. 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 16 mi of the line.
Silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand, silt, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 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 Ness City reaches the Gulf of America by way of North Fork Walnut Creek, Walnut Creek, the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 1,560 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Murray Lake and Ozark Lake.
600 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Ness City; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Ness City has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in July; winter nights fall to about 18° in January. A normal year brings about 21 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 24 inches of water.
On November 14 Ness City normally reaches 57° and falls to 29°. The record high is 80°, in 1999; the record low 7°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 0.25 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1965 at Jetmore 8 NNW, 18 miles south, 170 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
