The New Cambria 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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69° on Nov. 15, 2021, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1905. Next is 68° in 1953.
New Cambria’s center stands about 1,200 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,180 ft to 1,350 ft, a difference of 170 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Iron Mound, about 1,480 ft, 5 miles south.
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 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, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 21 mi of the line.
Sandstone, black-shale. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Claystone, mudstone, shale. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 0.5 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.
New Cambria has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 11° in January. A normal year brings about 22 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 10 inches of water.
On November 14 New Cambria normally reaches 42° and falls to 22°. The record high is 63°, in 2025; the record low −1°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 0.31 in, fell in 1906.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1905 from the Salmon Area threaded record (Salina Municipal Airport, 10 miles southwest). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
