The Fairview 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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34° on Nov. 14, 2022, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1996. Next is 35° in 2024.
Fairview’s center stands about 600 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 50 ft to 1,340 ft, a difference of 1,290 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mission Peak, about 2,480 ft, 15 miles southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Cretaceous marine rocks (in part nonmarine), unit 1 (Coast Ranges) (siltstone-mudstone), from the Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous, 66 to 145 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 13×. 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 8 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Miocene to Pleistocene, less than 23 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone, mudstone. Age: Oligocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 34 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Siltstone-mudstone. Age: Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Serpentinite. Age: Middle Jurassic to Late Jurassic, 145 to 175 million years old. About 0.5 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 Fairview reaches San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean by way of San Lorenzo Creek: about 7 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Fairview; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Fairview has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate. Summer afternoons average 78° in July; winter nights fall to about 42° in January. About 16 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Fairview normally reaches 65° and falls to 46°. The record high is 79°, in 2010; the record low 34°, in 2022. The most rain on this date, 0.51 in, fell in 2006.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1996 at Fremont, 9 miles south, 560 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
