The Hopkins 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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84° on Nov. 14, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1894. Next is 80° in 1988.
Hopkins’s center stands about 1,060 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,020 ft to 1,190 ft, a difference of 170 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Shawnee Group (limestone, shale), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million 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.
Limestone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 18 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 0.5 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.
A raindrop that lands in Hopkins reaches the Gulf of America by way of the East Fork One Hundred and Two, the One Hundred and Two, the Platte, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,700 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 Hopkins; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hopkins has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in July; winter nights fall to about 14° in January. A normal year brings about 15 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 38 inches of water.
On November 14 Hopkins normally reaches 51° and falls to 30°. The record high is 84°, in 1999; the record low −1°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.32 in, fell in 1931.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1894 at Maryville 2 E, 14 miles south. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
