The Galt 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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81° on Nov. 13, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1895. Next is 79° in 1949.
Galt’s center stands about 830 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 770 ft to 950 ft, a difference of 180 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Marmaton Group (limestone, shale), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old.
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.
Limestone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 24 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 Galt reaches the Gulf of America by way of Medicine Creek, the Grand River, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,490 river miles.
1,170 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Galt; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Galt has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 16° in January. A normal year brings about 17 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 40 inches of water.
On November 14 Galt normally reaches 52° and falls to 32°. The record high is 76°, in 1964; the record low 3°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 2.64 in, fell in 1931.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1895 at Trenton, 12 miles west-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
