The Lakeview 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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91° on Nov. 14, 2021, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1949. Next is 90° in 1949.
Lakeview’s center stands about 1,450 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,420 ft to 2,360 ft, a difference of 940 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Edna, about 4,350 ft, 14 miles east-northeast.
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 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 9×. 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 15 mi of the line.
Tonalite. Age: Middle Jurassic to Late Cretaceous, 66 to 175 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Plutonic, gneiss. Age: Paleoproterozoic to Late Cretaceous, 66 to 2,500 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Miocene to Pleistocene, less than 23 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.
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 Lakeview reaches the Pacific Ocean by way of the San Jacinto, Temescal Wash and the Santa Ana: about 85 river miles.
Often dry. About 70% of the way is mapped as streams that run only after rain or snowmelt; the water makes the whole trip in floods.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Lakeview; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lakeview has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 95° in August; winter nights fall to about 37° in December. About 11 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Lakeview normally reaches 73° and falls to 41°. The record high is 91°, in 2021; the record low 30°, in 1964. The most rain on this date, 0.62 in, fell in 1953.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1949 at March Afb, 9 miles west-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
