The Danbury 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. 13, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1894. Next is 81° in 1941.
Danbury’s center stands about 2,490 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,440 ft to 2,630 ft, a difference of 190 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.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 50×. 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 17 mi of the line.
Silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Arkose. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 0.7 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 0.4 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 Danbury reaches the Gulf of America by way of Beaver Creek, Sappa Creek, the Republican, the Kansas, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 2,060 river miles.
Lake on the way: Harlan County Lake.
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 Danbury; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Danbury has a dry-winter hot-summer continental climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 16° in January. About 20 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Danbury normally reaches 54° and falls to 26°. The record high is 81°, in 2025; the record low −14°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 0.62 in, fell in 1926.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1894 from the McCook Area threaded record (Mccook Municipal Airport, 15 miles northwest). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
