The Cameron Colony 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, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1896. Next is 80° in 1953.
Cameron Colony’s center stands about 1,590 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,360 ft to 1,660 ft, a difference of 300 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Pierre Shale (shale, bentonite), from the Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 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 39×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Chalk, marlstone, shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Shale, bentonite. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, siltstone, conglomerate-sandstone. Age: Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 2 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 Cameron Colony reaches the Gulf of America by way of Turkey Creek, the Clay Creek Ditch, the Vermillion, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,970 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 Cameron Colony; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Cameron Colony has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 10° in January. A normal year brings about 39 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 25 inches of water.
On November 14 Cameron Colony normally reaches 46° and falls to 26°. The record high is 83°, in 2025; the record low −26°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 1.20 in, fell in 1928.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1896 at Menno, 16 miles west-northwest, 260 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
