The Anamoose 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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70° on Nov. 14, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1964. Next is 69° in 1981.
Anamoose’s center stands about 1,620 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,570 ft to 1,660 ft, a difference of 90 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Fox Hills Formation (shale, sandstone), from the Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 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.
Sandstone, siltstone, claystone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 0.8 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.
Anamoose has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 81° in July; winter nights fall to about −3° in January. About 18 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Anamoose normally reaches 36° and falls to 17°. The record high is 70°, in 2025; the record low −6°, in 1996. The most rain on this date, 0.55 in, fell in 1994.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1964 at Drake 9 NE, 12 miles north-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
