The Kino Springs 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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3.10 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1952. The next wettest, 1.33 inches, fell in 1959.
Kino Springs’s center stands about 4,000 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 3,660 ft to 4,820 ft, a difference of 1,160 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Washington, about 7,170 ft, 5 miles east.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Pliocene to middle Miocene deposits (conglomerate, sandstone), from the Early Miocene to Pleistocene, 2 to 16 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 6×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Conglomerate, sandstone. Age: Early Miocene to Pleistocene, 2 to 16 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Conglomerate, sandstone. Age: Early Oligocene to Late Miocene, 11 to 32 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Granite, granodiorite, diorite. Age: Late Cretaceous to Early Eocene, 50 to 82 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Rhyolite, sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Early Jurassic to Late Jurassic, 160 to 200 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Diorite, alkali-granite, granodiorite. Age: Early Jurassic to Late Jurassic, 150 to 180 million years old. About 1 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.
Kino Springs has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 97° in June; winter nights fall to about 28° in January. About 16 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Kino Springs normally reaches 74° and falls to 35°. The record high is 88°, in 2017; the record low 22°, in 1961. The most rain on this date, 0.73 in, fell in 1959.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1952 at Nogales 6 N, 11 miles northwest, 540 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
