The Minster 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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4° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1897. Next is 6° in 1959.
Minster’s center stands about 970 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 940 ft to 1,020 ft, a difference of 80 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Lockport Dolomite (dolostone), from the Silurian, 425 to 445 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 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.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 425 to 445 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Shale, dolostone, limestone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Dolostone, limestone, shale. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 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.
Minster straddles the St. Lawrence Divide. Rain on the northeast side runs to Lake Erie; most of the rest goes to the Gulf of America.
From the center of town, a raindrop reaches the Gulf of America by way of Loramie Creek, the Great Miami, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,600 river miles. One that lands on the northeast side reaches Lake Erie by way of Kopp Creek, the Saint Marys and the Maumee: about 240 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
970 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Minster; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Minster 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 29 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 40 inches of water.
On November 14 Minster normally reaches 51° and falls to 34°. The record high is 71°, in 1956; the record low 12°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 2.49 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1897 at Celina 3 NE, 15 miles northwest, 100 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
