The Shickley 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, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 81° in 2016.
Shickley’s center stands about 1,650 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,620 ft to 1,680 ft, a difference of 60 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Carlile 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.
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.
A raindrop that lands in Shickley reaches the Gulf of America by way of Dry Sandy Creek, Big Sandy Creek, the Little Blue, the Big Blue, the Kansas, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,870 river miles.
Lake on the way: Tuttle Creek 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 Shickley; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Shickley has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 14° in January. A normal year brings about 23 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 31 inches of water.
On November 14 Shickley normally reaches 53° and falls to 28°. The record high is 83°, in 1999; the record low −4°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 1.10 in, fell in 1926.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Hebron, 18 miles south-southeast, 170 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
