The Hammond 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. 17, 1953, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1890. Next is 66° in 2001.
Hammond’s center stands about 870 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 870 ft to 880 ft, a difference of 10 ft: nearly flat ground.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Schist of sedimentary protolith, 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.
Schist. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 16 mi of the line.
Biotite-schist, migmatite. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Conglomerate, sandstone, mudstone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 72 to 100 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Age: Precambrian. About 1 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 Hammond reaches Hudson Bay by way of the Sand Hill, the Red River of the North and the Nelson: about 990 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 Hammond; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hammond has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about −4° in January. About 22 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Hammond normally reaches 37° and falls to 20°. The record high is 64°, in 2016; the record low −11°, in 1919. The most rain on this date, 0.89 in, fell in 1944.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1890 at Crookston Nw Experiment Sta, 13 miles north. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
