The Enderlin 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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68° on Nov. 11, 2005, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1952. Next is 67° in 1953.
Enderlin’s center stands about 1,080 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,060 ft to 1,170 ft, a difference of 110 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Standing Rock Hill, about 1,480 ft, 15 miles west.
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 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 57×. 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. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 1 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 Enderlin reaches Hudson Bay by way of the South Branch Maple, the Maple, the Sheyenne, 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.
430 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 Enderlin; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Enderlin has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 85° in July; winter nights fall to about 3° in January. About 24 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Enderlin normally reaches 43° and falls to 24°. The record high is 66°, in 2025; the record low −10°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.16 in, fell in 1994.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1952 at Enderlin 2 W, 2 miles west. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
