The Hendley 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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86° on Nov. 13, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 85° in 1896.
Hendley’s center stands about 2,240 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,200 ft to 2,390 ft, a difference of 190 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Niobrara Formation (limestone, shale), from the Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 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 54×. 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 13 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 11 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 Hendley reaches the Gulf of America by way of Beaver Creek, Sappa Creek, the Republican, the Kansas, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 2,010 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 Hendley; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hendley has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 12° in January. A normal year brings about 21 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 25 inches of water.
On November 14 Hendley normally reaches 56° and falls to 23°. The record high is 81°, in 1894; the record low −7°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 1.20 in, fell in 1926.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Beaver City, 8 miles east. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
