The Hagen 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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74° on Nov. 17, 1953, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1892. Next is 66° in 1923.
Hagen’s center stands about 1,070 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 930 ft to 1,130 ft, a difference of 200 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Frenchmans Bluff, about 1,350 ft, 11 miles northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Mafic metavolcanic rocks (metabasalt, greenstone), from the Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion 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 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.
Metabasalt, greenstone. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 22 mi of the line.
Granite, granodiorite. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 2 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 Hagen reaches Hudson Bay by way of the South Branch Wild Rice, the Wild Rice, the Red River of the North and the Nelson: about 1,080 river miles. Past the border it runs north through Canada to Hudson Bay.
Lake on the way: Lake Winnipeg.
400 miles of the trip are on the Nelson.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Hagen; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hagen has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 81° in July; winter nights fall to about −4° in January. About 25 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Hagen normally reaches 37° and falls to 19°. The record high is 67°, in 1953; the record low −20°, in 1919. The most rain on this date, 0.46 in, fell in 1971.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1892 at Ada, 15 miles north-northwest, 160 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
