The Radersburg 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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74° on Nov. 12, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 73° in 1990.
Radersburg’s center stands about 4,320 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,100 ft to 5,090 ft, a difference of 990 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Crow Peak, about 9,390 ft, 15 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Gravel, from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 1.8 million years old.
The section below crosses 14 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 6×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 1.8 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Siltstone, sedimentary-breccia, conglomerate. Age: Early Eocene to Early Miocene, 16 to 56 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, black-shale. Age: Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous, 94 to 113 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Mudstone, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 133 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Early Mississippian to Middle Mississippian, 331 to 359 million 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. 8 smaller units along the line are not listed.
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 Radersburg reaches the Gulf of America by way of Crow Creek, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 3,460 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lake Oahe, Lake Sakakawea, Lake Fort Peck and Lake Sharpe.
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 Radersburg; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Radersburg has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 14° in January. A normal year brings about 24 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 11 inches of water.
On November 14 Radersburg normally reaches 44° and falls to 23°. The record high is 67°, in 2021; the record low −11°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.15 in, fell in 1978.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Townsend 3 SE, 11 miles northeast, 360 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
