The Herrick 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 1906. Next is 80° in 1953.
Herrick’s center stands about 2,160 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,980 ft to 2,180 ft, a difference of 200 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Eolian Deposits (silt, sand), from the Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 23×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Shale, bentonite. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Sandstone, limestone, siltstone. Age: Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Silt, sand. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, clay. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.7 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 Herrick reaches the Gulf of America by way of Willow Creek, Ponca Creek, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 2,090 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lewis and Clark Lake.
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 Herrick; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Herrick 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 45 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 27 inches of water.
On November 14 Herrick normally reaches 48° and falls to 23°. The record high is 80°, in 1990; the record low −24°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.26 in, fell in 2014.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1906 at Gregory, 15 miles northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
