The Gordon 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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Gordon’s center stands about 3,560 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 3,520 ft to 3,710 ft, a difference of 190 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Maria, about 3,740 ft, 15 miles west-northwest.
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 32×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sand, volcanic. Age: Late Oligocene to Miocene, 5.3 to 28 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Siltstone-mudstone, conglomerate-sandstone. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 12 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 Gordon reaches the Gulf of America by way of Antelope Creek, the Niobrara, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 2,290 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lewis and Clark 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 Gordon; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
