The Hazelton 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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−11° on Nov. 14, 2014, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is −11° in 2019.
Hazelton’s center stands about 1,980 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,900 ft to 2,080 ft, a difference of 180 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Hell Creek Formation (sandstone, siltstone, claystone), from the Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 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 49×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone, siltstone, claystone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 16 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 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 Hazelton reaches the Gulf of America by way of Hawk Creek, Long Lake Creek, Random Creek, Apple Creek, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 2,570 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lake Oahe, Lake Sharpe, Lake Francis Case and Lewis and Clark Lake.
1,170 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Hazelton; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hazelton has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 81° in July; winter nights fall to about 2° in January. A normal year brings about 45 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 19 inches of water.
On November 14 Hazelton normally reaches 39° and falls to 19°. The record high is 65°, in 2001; the record low −11°, in 2014. The most rain on this date, 0.16 in, fell in 1994.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Hazelton 4 NW, 4 miles northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
