The Benedict 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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−22° on Nov. 14, 1940, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1929. Next is −16° in 1955.
Benedict’s center stands about 2,090 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,970 ft to 2,170 ft, a difference of 200 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Bullion Creek Formation (claystone, siltstone), from the Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 41×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Claystone, siltstone. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 17 mi of the line.
Siltstone, claystone, sandstone. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 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.
Benedict has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 81° in July; winter nights fall to about 0° in January. A normal year brings about 49 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 19 inches of water.
On November 14 Benedict normally reaches 36° and falls to 18°. The record high is 72°, in 1939; the record low −22°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 0.40 in, fell in 1944.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1929 at Max, 10 miles west. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
