The Rugby 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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67° on Nov. 16, 2001, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1904. Next is 67° in 2025.
Rugby’s center stands about 1,540 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,520 ft to 1,590 ft, a difference of 70 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Broken Bone Hill, about 1,700 ft, 10 miles east.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Fox Hills Formation (shale, sandstone), 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, sandstone. 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 Rugby reaches Hudson Bay by way of Snake Creek, Willow Creek, the Souris, the Assiniboine, the Red River of the North and the Nelson: about 1,090 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 30% 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 Rugby; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Rugby has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about −4° in January. A normal year brings about 43 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 21 inches of water.
On November 14 Rugby normally reaches 35° and falls to 16°. The record high is 65°, in 1953; the record low −10°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.22 in, fell in 1996.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1904 at Rugby, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
