The Alpaugh 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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24° on Nov. 17, 1961, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 26° in 1955.
Alpaugh’s center stands about 200 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 190 ft to 200 ft, a difference of 10 ft: nearly flat ground.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Quaternary alluvium and marine deposits (coarse-detrital), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 24 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.
Alpaugh has a cold desert climate. Summer afternoons average 98° in July; winter nights fall to about 36° in December. Barely 0.0 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Alpaugh normally reaches 67° and falls to 41°. The record high is 79°, in 1995; the record low 31°, in 1985. The most rain on this date, 0.90 in, fell in 1953.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Corcoran Irrigation Dist., 15 miles north-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
