The Clements 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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78° on Nov. 13, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1892. Next is 75° in 1953.
Clements’s center stands about 1,060 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,030 ft to 1,060 ft, a difference of 30 ft: nearly flat ground.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Granitic intrusion, from the Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion 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 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Conglomerate, sandstone, mudstone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 72 to 100 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Granitic. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Orthogneiss, migmatite. Age: Paleoarchean to Mesoarchean, 2.8 to 3.6 billion years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Orthogneiss. Age: Paleoarchean to Mesoarchean, 2.8 to 3.6 billion years old. About 3 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 Clements reaches the Gulf of America by way of Sleepy Eye Creek, the Cottonwood, the Minnesota and the Mississippi: about 2,020 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Pepin.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Clements; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Clements has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 6° in January. About 28 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Clements normally reaches 43° and falls to 25°. The record high is 74°, in 2025; the record low −8°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 1.53 in, fell in 1909.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1892 at Redwood Falls Municipal Airport, 12 miles north. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
