The Sabetha 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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83° on Nov. 13, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1912. Next is 79° in 2005.
Sabetha’s center stands about 1,320 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.
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 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 47×. 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 16 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand, silt, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 0.7 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 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.
A raindrop that lands in Sabetha reaches the Gulf of America by way of Pony Creek, the Big Nemaha, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,690 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 Sabetha; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Sabetha has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 17° in January. About 35 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Sabetha normally reaches 53° and falls to 31°. The record high is 75°, in 1990; the record low 1°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 0.65 in, fell in 1931.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1912 at Falls City Brenner Field, 17 miles northeast, 340 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
