The Webber 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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80° on Nov. 14, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1955. Next is 80° in 2016.
Webber’s center stands about 1,670 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,560 ft to 1,720 ft, a difference of 160 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 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 57×. 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, limestone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand, silt, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale, chalk. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 0.9 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 Webber reaches the Gulf of America by way of Lovewell Reservoir, White Rock Creek, the Republican, the Kansas, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,860 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lovewell Reservoir.
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 Webber; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Webber has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 16° in January. About 28 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Webber normally reaches 54° and falls to 30°. The record high is 80°, in 1999; the record low 0°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 0.10 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1955 at Lovewell Dam, 2 miles south-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
