The New Effington 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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Showers likely
−2° on Nov. 14, 2014, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1923. Next is −2° in 2019.
New Effington’s center stands about 1,090 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,080 ft to 1,180 ft, a difference of 100 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Carlile Shale, 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 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.
Shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 21 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, bentonite. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 0.4 mi of the line.
Shale, mudstone, marlstone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 0.3 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 New Effington reaches Hudson Bay by way of Cottonwood Slough, Jim Creek, the Bois de Sioux, the Red River of the North and the Nelson: about 1,260 river miles. Past the border it runs north through Canada to Hudson Bay.
Lakes on the way: Lake Traverse and Lake Winnipeg.
550 miles of the trip are on the Red River of the North.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of New Effington; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
New Effington has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 1° in January. A normal year brings about 49 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 26 inches of water.
On November 14 New Effington normally reaches 40° and falls to 22°. The record high is 69°, in 2001; the record low −2°, in 2014. The most rain on this date, 0.51 in, fell in 1951.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1923 at Victor 4 N, 6 miles northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
