The Berea 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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−14° on Nov. 12, 2000, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1996. Next is −13° in 2014.
Berea’s center stands about 4,140 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,050 ft to 4,190 ft, a difference of 140 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Arikaree Group (sand, volcanic), from the Late Oligocene to Miocene, 5.3 to 28 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 43×. 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 14 mi of the line.
Sand, volcanic. Age: Late Oligocene to Miocene, 5.3 to 28 million years old. About 11 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.
Berea has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 9° in December. About 15 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Berea normally reaches 50° and falls to 18°. The record high is 77°, in 2025; the record low −8°, in 2000. The most rain on this date, 0.11 in, fell in 2005.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1996 at Alliance Municipal Airport Asos, 14 miles southeast, 220 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
