The Sargent 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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84° on Nov. 11, 2005, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 80° in 2025.
Sargent’s center stands about 2,320 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,290 ft to 2,500 ft, a difference of 210 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Boggs Table, about 2,660 ft, 9 miles south-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 45×. 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 Sargent reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Middle Loup, the Loup, the Platte, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 2,020 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 Sargent; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Sargent has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 12° in January. A normal year brings about 29 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 26 inches of water.
On November 14 Sargent normally reaches 49° and falls to 24°. The record high is 74°, in 1975; the record low −8°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.36 in, fell in 1968.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Burwell 2 WSW, 13 miles northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
