The Likely 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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78° on Nov. 17, 2008, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 72° in 1990.
Likely’s center stands about 4,450 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,390 ft to 4,930 ft, a difference of 540 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Bald Mountain, about 7,680 ft, 14 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 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 7×. 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 11 mi of the line.
Andesite, basalt. Age: Late Oligocene to Pleistocene, 2 to 24 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Miocene to Pleistocene, less than 23 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Andesite, basalt. Age: Late Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 3.6 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.
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 Likely reaches San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean by way of Dry Creek, the South Fork Pit, the Pit and the Sacramento: about 530 river miles.
310 miles of the trip are on the Sacramento.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Likely; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Likely has a dry-summer warm-summer continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 20° in December. A normal year brings about 82 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 19 inches of water.
On November 14 Likely normally reaches 52° and falls to 26°. The record high is 71°, in 1999; the record low 1°, in 1978. The most rain on this date, 1.65 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Jess Valley, 11 miles east-northeast, 870 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
