The Max 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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−22° on Nov. 14, 1940, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1929. Next is −16° in 1955.
Max’s center stands about 2,100 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,010 ft to 2,210 ft, a difference of 200 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Sentinel Butte Formation (siltstone, claystone, sandstone), from the Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 56×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Siltstone, claystone, sandstone. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 16 mi of the line.
Claystone, siltstone. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 8 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.
Max has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 81° in July; winter nights fall to about 0° in January. A normal year brings about 49 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 19 inches of water.
On November 14 Max normally reaches 36° and falls to 18°. The record high is 72°, in 1939; the record low −22°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 0.40 in, fell in 1944.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1929 at Max, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
