The Claybanks 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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6° on Nov. 15, 1959, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 13° in 1986.
Claybanks’s center stands about 850 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 570 ft to 880 ft, a difference of 310 ft: rolling country.
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 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.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 1 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 Claybanks reaches Lake Michigan by way of North Branch Flower Creek: about 6 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Claybanks; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Claybanks has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 79° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in January. A normal year brings about 69 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 35 inches of water.
On November 14 Claybanks normally reaches 46° and falls to 33°. The record high is 68°, in 1956; the record low 14°, in 1908. The most rain on this date, 1.40 in, fell in 1908.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Montague 4 NW, 4 miles south-southeast, 200 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
