The Feeley 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.
68° on Nov. 17, 2001, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1915. Next is 67° in 1953.
Feeley’s center stands about 1,320 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,270 ft to 1,460 ft, a difference of 190 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Bengal Hill, about 1,540 ft, 11 miles northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Coleraine Formation (conglomerate, lignite, sandstone), from the Late Cretaceous, 94 to 100 million years old.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 63×. 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, lignite, sandstone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 94 to 100 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Slate, graywacke. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2 billion years old. About 12 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 Feeley reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Swan River and the Mississippi: about 2,160 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Pepin.
1,750 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Feeley; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Feeley has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about −1° in January. A normal year brings about 60 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 29 inches of water.
On November 14 Feeley normally reaches 37° and falls to 21°. The record high is 65°, in 1953; the record low −9°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.54 in, fell in 1951.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1915 at Grand Rapids Forestry Lab, 13 miles west-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.