The Honor 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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5° on Nov. 17, 1959, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1898. Next is 11° in 1933.
Honor’s center stands about 750 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 580 ft to 1,020 ft, a difference of 440 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Warner Hill, about 1,160 ft, 10 miles northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Antrim Shale (black-shale), from the Late Devonian, 359 to 384 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 35×. 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. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Middle Devonian, 384 to 394 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Black-shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 4 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 Honor reaches Lake Michigan by way of the Platte: about 10 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
Lake on the way: Platte Lake.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Honor; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Honor has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 78° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in January. A normal year brings about 93 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 34 inches of water.
On November 14 Honor normally reaches 44° and falls to 33°. The record high is 62°, in 1964; the record low 12°, in 1933. The most rain on this date, 1.00 in, fell in 1916.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1898 at Frankfort 2 NE, 9 miles west, 200 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
