The Shotley 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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63° on Nov. 15, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1923. Next is 61° in 2010.
Shotley’s center stands about 1,210 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,160 ft to 1,250 ft, a difference of 90 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Biotite schist of graywacke protolith, and schist-rich migmatite (biotite-schist, migmatite), 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.
Biotite-schist, migmatite. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Metabasalt, greenstone. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Plutonic. Age: Archean. About 4 mi of the line.
Felsic-volcanic. 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 Shotley reaches Hudson Bay by way of Upper Red Lake, the Red Lake, the Red River of the North and the Nelson: about 1,180 river miles. Past the border it runs north through Canada to Hudson Bay.
Lakes on the way: Upper Red 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 Shotley; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Shotley has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 79° in July; winter nights fall to about −6° in January. About 27 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Shotley normally reaches 37° and falls to 20°. The record high is 60°, in 2001; the record low −3°, in 1996. The most rain on this date, 0.43 in, fell in 2024.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1923 at Waskish 4 NE, 15 miles northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
