The Oberon 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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66° on Nov. 14, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1963. Next is 60° in 2016.
Oberon’s center stands about 1,560 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,510 ft to 1,590 ft, a difference of 80 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Sullys Hill, about 1,760 ft, 12 miles east-northeast.
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 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. 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 Oberon reaches Hudson Bay by way of the Sheyenne, the Red River of the North and the Nelson: about 1,540 river miles. Past the border it runs north through Canada to Hudson Bay.
Lake on the way: Lake Winnipeg.
460 miles of the trip are on the Sheyenne.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Oberon; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Oberon has a cold desert climate. Summer afternoons average 79° in July; winter nights fall to about −2° in January. Barely 0.0 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1963 at Devils Lake Municipal Airport, 19 miles northeast, 120 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
