The Burnt Ranch 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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Burnt Ranch’s center stands about 1,490 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 940 ft to 5,010 ft, a difference of 4,070 ft: mountain country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Green Mountain, about 6,390 ft, 12 miles east-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Pre-Cenozoic metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks undivided (schist, gneiss), from the Paleoproterozoic to Cretaceous, 66 to 2,500 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 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.
Melange. Age: Devonian to Jurassic, 145 to 422 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Diorite. Age: Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, 100 to 202 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Slate, graywacke. Age: Triassic to Late Jurassic, 145 to 252 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Schist, gneiss. Age: Paleoproterozoic to Cretaceous, 66 to 2,500 million years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
Mica-schist. Age: Early Cretaceous, 110 to 143 million years old. About 0.8 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 Burnt Ranch reaches the Pacific Ocean by way of McDonald Creek, the Trinity and the Klamath: about 90 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Burnt Ranch; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
