The Lake City 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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72° on Nov. 14, 1953, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 72° in 2001.
Lake City’s center stands about 1,860 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,790 ft to 1,950 ft, a difference of 160 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Pleasant Peak, about 2,060 ft, 7 miles north-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Pierre Shale (shale, bentonite), from the Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 27×. 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 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.
Lake City has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 0° in January. A normal year brings about 45 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 24 inches of water.
On November 14 Lake City normally reaches 40° and falls to 20°. The record high is 72°, in 1953; the record low −13°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 0.53 in, fell in 1928.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Britton, 17 miles west-northwest, 500 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
