The Callaway 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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67° on Nov. 11, 2005, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1977. Next is 63° in 2016.
Callaway’s center stands about 1,420 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,270 ft to 1,580 ft, a difference of 310 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Magnetic intrusions, undifferentiated (plutonic), from the Archean.
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 46×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Metabasalt, greenstone. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Granitic. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Plutonic. Age: Archean. About 2 mi of the line.
Gabbro, peridotite, pyroxenite. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion 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.
A raindrop that lands in Callaway reaches Hudson Bay by way of the Buffalo, the Red River of the North and the Nelson: about 1,170 river miles. Past the border it runs north through Canada to Hudson Bay.
Lake on the way: Lake Winnipeg.
420 miles of the trip are on the Red River of the North.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Callaway; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Callaway has a cold desert climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about −4° in January. Barely 0.0 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1977 at Tamarac Wildlife Ref, 11 miles east-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
