The Lansford 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.
Lansford’s center stands about 1,610 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,550 ft to 1,630 ft, a difference of 80 ft: gently rolling country.
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 64×. 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 14 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, claystone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 2 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 Lansford reaches Hudson Bay by way of Little Deep Creek, the Deep River, the Souris, the Assiniboine, the Red River of the North and the Nelson: about 1,070 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 50% 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 Lansford; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lansford 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 Lansford 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, 15 miles southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
