The Keyes 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.
Mostly sunny
Chance of showers
Showers likely; cooler
Sunny
Showers likely
Showers likely
Partly cloudy
28° on Nov. 16, 1921, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 28° in 1924.
Keyes’s center stands about 100 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 80 ft to 120 ft, a difference of 40 ft: nearly flat ground.
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.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. 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 24 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.
Keyes has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 42° in January. About 12 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Keyes normally reaches 65° and falls to 47°. The record high is 81°, in 1921; the record low 29°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 1.24 in, fell in 1965.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Turlock #2, 5 miles southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
