The Camarillo 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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95° on Nov. 16, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1923. Next is 95° in 2021.
Camarillo’s center stands about 160 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 60 ft to 760 ft, a difference of 700 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Sandstone Peak, about 3,020 ft, 9 miles southeast.
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 10×. 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 9 mi of the line.
Sandstone, mudstone. Age: Oligocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 34 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Basalt, andesite. Age: Late Oligocene to Late Miocene, 8 to 25 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Miocene to Pleistocene, less than 23 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Middle Eocene to Early Miocene, 16 to 48 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sandstone, mudstone. Age: Miocene to Pleistocene, less than 23 million 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.
A raindrop that lands in Camarillo reaches the Pacific Ocean by way of Calleguas Creek: about 6 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Camarillo; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Camarillo has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in August; winter nights fall to about 44° in December. About 12 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Camarillo normally reaches 73° and falls to 49°. The record high is 94°, in 1949; the record low 34°, in 2000. The most rain on this date, 1.63 in, fell in 1953.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1923 from the Camarillo Area threaded record (Camarillo Airport, 3 miles west-southwest). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
