The Valentine 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.
Valentine’s center stands about 3,820 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 3,660 ft to 5,010 ft, a difference of 1,350 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Peacock Peak, about 6,240 ft, 9 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Early Proterozoic granitic rocks (granite, granodiorite, tonalite), from the Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 1.8 billion 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.
Granite, granodiorite, tonalite. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 1.8 billion years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Basalt, andesite, dacite. Age: Middle Eocene to Late Miocene, 11 to 38 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand, silt, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Metavolcanic. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 1.8 billion 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.
Valentine 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 Valentine 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, 18 miles west-southwest, 400 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
