The New Kingman-Butler 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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18° on Nov. 17, 1958, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1901. Next is 19° in 1985.
New Kingman-Butler’s center stands about 3,360 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 3,270 ft to 3,850 ft, a difference of 580 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Hayden Peak, about 8,310 ft, 14 miles south-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Quaternary surficial deposits, undivided (sand, silt, clay), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2 million years old.
The section below crosses 6 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.
Sand, silt, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Granite, granodiorite, tonalite. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 1.8 billion years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Gravel, sand. Age: Late Pliocene to Pleistocene, 0.8 to 3 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Metasedimentary, metavolcanic, gneiss. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 1.8 billion years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Granite, granodiorite, diorite. Age: Late Cretaceous to Early Eocene, 50 to 82 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Metasedimentary, schist. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 1.8 billion 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.
New Kingman-Butler has a cold desert climate. Summer afternoons average 99° in July; winter nights fall to about 30° in December. About 8 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 New Kingman-Butler normally reaches 67° and falls to 37°. The record high is 82°, in 1999; the record low 24°, in 1964. The most rain on this date, 0.76 in, fell in 1946.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1901 from the Kingman Area threaded record (Kingman Airport, 4 miles east). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
