The Lafayette 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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77° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1901. Next is 73° in 1958.
Lafayette’s center stands about 940 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 890 ft to 1,020 ft, a difference of 130 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Anstine Hill, about 1,120 ft, 13 miles south-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Salina Group (dolostone), from the Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 63×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 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 Lafayette reaches Lake Erie by way of Little Hog Creek, the Ottawa, the Auglaize and the Maumee: about 150 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
65 miles of the trip are on the Maumee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Lafayette; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lafayette has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in January. A normal year brings about 18 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 41 inches of water.
On November 14 Lafayette normally reaches 51° and falls to 34°. The record high is 72°, in 1909; the record low 9°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 2.10 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1901 at Lima Wwtp, 10 miles west-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
