The Yutan 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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2° on Nov. 16, 2014, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1994. Next is 4° in 2019.
Yutan’s center stands about 1,170 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,110 ft to 1,290 ft, a difference of 180 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Skunk Hill, about 1,350 ft, 12 miles west.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Dakota Group (sandstone, shale), from the Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 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.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 23 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 0.8 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 Yutan reaches the Gulf of America by way of Clear Creek, Wahoo Creek, the Platte, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,800 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 Yutan; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Yutan has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in July; winter nights fall to about 15° in January. A normal year brings about 32 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 33 inches of water.
On November 14 Yutan normally reaches 51° and falls to 31°. The record high is 84°, in 1999; the record low 7°, in 2014. The most rain on this date, 0.13 in, fell in 1995.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1994 at Valley Nws, 6 miles north-northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
