The Rogers 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 1887. Next is 64° in 1913.
Rogers’s center stands about 1,300 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,290 ft to 1,380 ft, a difference of 90 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Slate and graywacke (slate, graywacke), from the Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2 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.
Tonalite, granodiorite, diorite. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Slate, graywacke. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2 billion years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Metabasalt, greenstone. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 6 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 Rogers reaches the Gulf of America by way of Boy Lake, the Boy, the Leech Lake and the Mississippi: about 2,240 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Leech Lake, Lake Pepin and Boy Lake.
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 Rogers; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Rogers has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about −2° in January. A normal year brings about 48 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 27 inches of water.
On November 14 Rogers normally reaches 37° and falls to 22°. The record high is 62°, in 1939; the record low −5°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 1.30 in, fell in 1926.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1887 at Leech Lake, 12 miles north-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
