The Inland 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 1894. Next is 81° in 1999.
Inland’s center stands about 1,860 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,810 ft to 1,880 ft, a difference of 70 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.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Limestone, shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 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.
Inland has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 16° in January. About 26 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Inland normally reaches 52° and falls to 29°. The record high is 83°, in 2025; the record low −7°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 1.20 in, fell in 1926.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1894 from the Hastings Area threaded record (Hastings Municipal Airport, 11 miles west). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
