The Shallow Water 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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87° on Nov. 15, 1941, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1895. Next is 84° in 2016.
Shallow Water’s center stands about 2,950 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,930 ft to 3,010 ft, a difference of 80 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Loess (silt), 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.
Silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 22 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 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.
Shallow Water has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 16° in January. A normal year brings about 20 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 20 inches of water.
On November 14 Shallow Water normally reaches 56° and falls to 26°. The record high is 83°, in 1999; the record low −2°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 0.45 in, fell in 1926.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1895 at Scott City, 7 miles north. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
