The St. Benedict 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.
St. Benedict’s center stands about 1,150 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,070 ft to 1,270 ft, a difference of 200 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 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 50×. 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 21 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 1.0 mi of the line.
Sand, silt, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.9 mi of the line.
Silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.8 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 St. Benedict reaches the Gulf of America by way of Wildcat Creek, the South Fork Nemaha, the Big Nemaha, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,730 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 St. Benedict; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
St. Benedict 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 St. Benedict 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, 15 miles west-southwest, 110 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
