The Upland 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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−22° on Nov. 14, 1959, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is −15° in 1940.
Upland Colony’s center stands about 1,290 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,210 ft to 1,320 ft, a difference of 110 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 2 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 16 mi of the line.
Chalk, marlstone, shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 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.
A raindrop that lands in Upland Colony reaches the Gulf of America by way of the James, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 2,120 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 Upland Colony; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Upland Colony has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in July; winter nights fall to about 9° in January. About 21 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Upland Colony normally reaches 46° and falls to 25°. The record high is 79°, in 2025; the record low −22°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.46 in, fell in 1928.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 from the Mitchell Area threaded record (Mitchell Airport, 8 miles south-southwest). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
