The Huntley 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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−15° on Nov. 13, 2014, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1952. Next is −10° in 2019.
Huntley’s center stands about 4,230 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,080 ft to 4,280 ft, a difference of 200 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Devils Armchair, about 4,980 ft, 15 miles south.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows White River Formation - Chadron Member (claystone, sandstone, conglomerate), from the Oligocene, 23 to 34 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 49×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Claystone, sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Oligocene, 23 to 34 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sand, unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Clay, silt, sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 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 Huntley reaches the Gulf of America by way of the North Platte, the Platte, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 2,280 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 Huntley; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Huntley has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 12° in January. About 15 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1952 at Lingle 2 WSW, 19 miles northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
