The Bartlett 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.
85° on Nov. 15, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 82° in 2005.
Bartlett’s center stands about 2,190 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,090 ft to 2,220 ft, a difference of 130 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Ogallala Group or Formation (siltstone-mudstone, conglomerate-sandstone), from the Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 62×. 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-mudstone, conglomerate-sandstone. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 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.
Bartlett has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 11° in January. About 27 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Bartlett normally reaches 49° and falls to 23°. The record high is 79°, in 1999; the record low −8°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 0.38 in, fell in 2021.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Ericson 8 WNW, 15 miles west-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.