The Barney 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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73° on Nov. 17, 1953, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1912. Next is 69° in 1981.
Barney’s center stands about 1,030 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 990 ft to 1,050 ft, a difference of 60 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Greenhorn Formation (shale), from the Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 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.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Age: Precambrian. About 7 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 0.7 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 Barney reaches Hudson Bay by way of Antelope Creek, the Wild Rice, the Red River of the North and the Nelson: about 1,190 river miles. Past the border it runs north through Canada to Hudson Bay.
Lake on the way: Lake Winnipeg.
470 miles of the trip are on the Red River of the North.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Barney; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Barney has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about −1° in January. About 24 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Barney normally reaches 40° and falls to 21°. The record high is 67°, in 2016; the record low −12°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 0.57 in, fell in 1951.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1912 at Mc Leod 3 E, 14 miles northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
