The Greenview 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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74° on Nov. 14, 1995, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 74° in 1996.
Greenview’s center stands about 2,810 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,720 ft to 3,720 ft, a difference of 1,000 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Boulder Peak, about 8,220 ft, 10 miles west-northwest.
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 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.
Coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Schist, gneiss. Age: Paleoproterozoic to Cretaceous, 66 to 2,500 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Mafic-volcanic, greenstone. Age: Paleozoic to Mesozoic, 66 to 542 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Amphibolite, schist. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Melange. Age: Devonian to Jurassic, 145 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Peridotite, serpentinite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Early Jurassic, 175 to 1,000 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. 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 Greenview reaches the Pacific Ocean by way of Kidder Creek, the Scott and the Klamath: about 180 river miles.
140 miles of the trip are on the Klamath.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Greenview; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Greenview has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 27° in January. A normal year brings about 12 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 19 inches of water.
On November 14 Greenview normally reaches 54° and falls to 31°. The record high is 74°, in 1995; the record low 9°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 1.22 in, fell in 1981.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Yreka, 17 miles northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
