The Wilcox 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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81° on Nov. 15, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1894. Next is 80° in 1917.
Wilcox’s center stands about 2,240 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,190 ft to 2,290 ft, a difference of 100 ft: gently rolling country.
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.
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 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.
Siltstone-mudstone, conglomerate-sandstone. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 24 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 0.6 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.
Wilcox has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in July; winter nights fall to about 13° in January. A normal year brings about 25 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 28 inches of water.
On November 14 Wilcox normally reaches 52° and falls to 25°. The record high is 80°, in 1917; the record low −4°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 0.66 in, fell in 1926.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1894 at Holdrege, 13 miles west-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
