The Brady 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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82° on Nov. 11, 2005, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1874. Next is 82° in 2025.
Brady’s center stands about 2,660 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,630 ft to 2,800 ft, a difference of 170 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Odencranze Table, about 3,100 ft, 13 miles north-northeast.
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 42×. 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.
A raindrop that lands in Brady reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Platte, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 2,060 river miles.
1,170 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Brady; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Brady has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 12° in January. A normal year brings about 30 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 21 inches of water.
On November 14 Brady normally reaches 53° and falls to 22°. The record high is 82°, in 2025; the record low −8°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 0.49 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1874 from the North Platte Area threaded record (North Platte Regional Airport, 17 miles west-northwest, 100 ft higher). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
