The Oteneagen 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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−20° on Nov. 16, 1933, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1887. Next is −12° in 1894.
Oteneagen’s center stands about 1,370 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,320 ft to 1,460 ft, a difference of 140 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Calc-alkalic volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks (alkalic-volcanic), from the Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old.
The section below crosses 3 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.
Granitic. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Alkalic-volcanic. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Granitic. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 5 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.
Oteneagen straddles the Laurentian Divide. Rain on the south side runs to the Gulf of America; most of the rest goes to Hudson Bay.
From the center of town, a raindrop reaches Hudson Bay by way of Grouse Creek, the Bowstring, the Big Fork, the Rainy, the Winnipeg and the Nelson: about 1,100 river miles. Past the border it runs north through Canada to Hudson Bay. One that lands on the south side reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Mississippi: about 2,190 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lake of the Woods, Bowstring Lake, Portage Lake and 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 Oteneagen; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Oteneagen has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 78° in July; winter nights fall to about −3° in January. About 28 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Oteneagen normally reaches 37° and falls to 21°. The record high is 64°, in 1953; the record low −9°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.71 in, fell in 1909.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1887 at Pokegama Dam, 18 miles southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
