The Ruthville 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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72° on Nov. 12, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 69° in 1953.
Ruthville’s center stands about 1,650 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,610 ft to 1,690 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 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 54×. 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 19 mi of the line.
Claystone, siltstone. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 6 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.
Ruthville has a dry-winter warm-summer continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 4° in January. A normal year brings about 45 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 17 inches of water.
On November 14 Ruthville normally reaches 40° and falls to 21°. The record high is 67°, in 2025; the record low −10°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.54 in, fell in 1964.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Minot International Airport, 8 miles south. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
