The Pine 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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82° on Nov. 12, 1967, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 78° in 1953.
Pine’s center stands about 5,450 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,800 ft to 7,210 ft, a difference of 2,410 ft: mountain country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Baker Butte, about 8,060 ft, 7 miles northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Mississippian, Devonian, and Cambrian sedimentary rocks (sandstone, shale, limestone), from the Early Cambrian to Late Mississippian, 330 to 540 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 4×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Basalt. Age: Early Miocene to Late Miocene, 8 to 16 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Sandstone, limestone. Age: Permian, 270 to 280 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale, limestone. Age: Middle Pennsylvanian to Permian, 280 to 310 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale, limestone. Age: Early Cambrian to Late Mississippian, 330 to 540 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 Pine reaches the Gulf of California by way of Pine Creek, the East Verde, the Verde, the Salt River, the Gila and the Colorado: about 480 river miles.
200 miles of the trip are on the Gila.
Often dry. About 50% of the way is mapped as streams that run only after rain or snowmelt; the water makes the whole trip in floods.
Seldom reaches the sea. Dams and canals now take nearly all of the Colorado before its old delta in Mexico.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Pine; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Pine has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. About 22 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Pine normally reaches 64° and falls to 37°. The record high is 80°, in 1967; the record low 20°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 1.28 in, fell in 1946.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Natural Bridge, 4 miles south, 840 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
