The Cloverdale 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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27° on Nov. 12, 1978, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1950. Next is 30° in 1985.
Cloverdale’s center stands about 340 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 270 ft to 1,640 ft, a difference of 1,370 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Cobb Mountain, about 4,730 ft, 15 miles east.
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.
The section below crosses 8 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.
Melange. Age: Jurassic to Cretaceous, 66 to 202 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Sandstone, mudstone. Age: Jurassic to Cretaceous, 66 to 202 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Greenstone. Age: Jurassic to Cretaceous, 66 to 202 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Siltstone-mudstone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 113 to 145 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone, mudstone. Age: Late Cretaceous to Pliocene, 2.6 to 100 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 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. 2 smaller units along the line are not listed.
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 Cloverdale reaches the Pacific Ocean by way of the Russian: about 65 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Cloverdale; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Cloverdale has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in July; winter nights fall to about 38° in January. About 42 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Cloverdale normally reaches 67° and falls to 43°. The record high is 82°, in 2019; the record low 32°, in 1985. The most rain on this date, 5.79 in, fell in 1965.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1950 at Cloverdale, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
