The Enders 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. 14, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1950. Next is 77° in 2007.
Enders’s center stands about 3,150 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 3,050 ft to 3,320 ft, a difference of 270 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Old Baldy, about 3,480 ft, 13 miles southwest.
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 39×. 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 Enders reaches the Gulf of America by way of Frenchman Creek, the Republican, the Kansas, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 2,140 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 Enders; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Enders has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 16° in January. About 18 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Enders normally reaches 53° and falls to 25°. The record high is 82°, in 2025; the record low −1°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.07 in, fell in 2005.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1950 at Imperial Municipal Airport, 6 miles northwest, 120 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
