The Fullerton 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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83° on Nov. 14, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 82° in 1999.
Fullerton’s center stands about 1,660 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,600 ft to 1,810 ft, a difference of 210 ft: 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 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 55×. 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.
Limestone, shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 10 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 Fullerton reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Cedar River, the Loup, the Platte, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,900 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 Fullerton; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Fullerton has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 13° in January. A normal year brings about 29 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 28 inches of water.
On November 14 Fullerton normally reaches 50° and falls to 27°. The record high is 83°, in 2025; the record low −11°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 0.98 in, fell in 1926.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Genoa 2 W, 12 miles east-northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
