The Carpio 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. 15, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1897. Next is 68° in 1939.
Carpio’s center stands about 1,700 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,680 ft to 1,970 ft, a difference of 290 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Church Hill, about 1,990 ft, 9 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Cannonball Formation (shale, sandstone), from the Paleocene, 56 to 66 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 26×. 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: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Siltstone, claystone, sandstone. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Claystone, siltstone. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 5 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 Carpio reaches Hudson Bay by way of the Des Lacs, the Souris, the Assiniboine, the Red River of the North and the Nelson: about 1,260 river miles. Past the border it runs north through Canada to Hudson Bay.
Lake on the way: Lake Winnipeg.
400 miles of the trip are on the Nelson.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Carpio; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Carpio has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 2° in January. About 18 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Carpio normally reaches 39° and falls to 20°. The record high is 68°, in 1939; the record low −19°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 1.20 in, fell in 1944.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1897 at Foxholm 7 N, 7 miles east. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
