The Whiting 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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Whiting’s center stands about 4,840 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,610 ft to 5,000 ft, a difference of 390 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Maxwell Hill, about 6,650 ft, 15 miles south-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Dune sand and loess (sand, unconsolidated), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 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 13×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sand, unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, claystone. Age: Late Oligocene to Late Miocene, 5.3 to 28 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Conglomerate, conglomerate-sandstone. Age: Oligocene, 23 to 34 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Clay, silt, sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.5 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 Whiting reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Laramie, the North Platte, the Platte, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 2,360 river miles.
Lake on the way: Grayrocks Reservoir.
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 Whiting; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
