The Venturia 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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73° on Nov. 15, 1953, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1877. Next is 69° in 2005.
Venturia’s center stands about 2,080 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,030 ft to 2,140 ft, a difference of 110 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Pierre Formation (shale), from the Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 59×. 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, bentonite. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, claystone. 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.
Venturia has a dry-winter warm-summer continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 2° in January. A normal year brings about 44 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 20 inches of water.
On November 14 Venturia normally reaches 39° and falls to 19°. The record high is 67°, in 1990; the record low −23°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 1.12 in, fell in 2003.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1877 at Eureka, 16 miles south-southwest, 210 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
