The Hansboro 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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−20° on Nov. 11, 1986, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1945. Next is −18° in 1959.
Hansboro’s center stands about 1,600 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,530 ft to 1,670 ft, a difference of 140 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Pierre Formation (shale), from the Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 58×. 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 24 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 Hansboro reaches Hudson Bay by way of the Red River of the North and the Nelson: about 800 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.
Often dry. About 100% of the way is mapped as streams that run only after rain or snowmelt; the water makes the whole trip in floods.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Hansboro; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hansboro has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 79° in July; winter nights fall to about −5° in January. About 20 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Hansboro normally reaches 36° and falls to 16°. The record high is 63°, in 1953; the record low −18°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.12 in, fell in 1960.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1945 at Belcourt Keya Radio, 19 miles west-southwest, 360 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
