The Stanton 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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5.76 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1980. The next wettest, 3.34 inches, fell in 1993.
Stanton’s center stands about 880 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 570 ft to 930 ft, a difference of 360 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mineral Hill, about 1,090 ft, 8 miles south-southwest.
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 37×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Dolostone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Sandstone, chert. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 497 million years old. About 1 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 Stanton reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Meramec and the Mississippi: about 1,240 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Stanton; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Stanton has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in July; winter nights fall to about 18° in January. A normal year brings about 14 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 45 inches of water.
On November 14 Stanton normally reaches 56° and falls to 31°. The record high is 84°, in 1989; the record low 7°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 2.24 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1980 at Rosebud, 19 miles northwest, 150 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
