The Linnell Camp 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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87° on Nov. 11, 1956, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1895. Next is 86° in 1900.
Linnell Camp’s center stands about 350 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 330 ft to 390 ft, a difference of 60 ft: nearly flat ground. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Davis Mountain, about 2,340 ft, 15 miles 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 15×. 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 20 mi of the line.
Schist, gneiss. Age: Paleoproterozoic to Cretaceous, 66 to 2,500 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Peridotite, serpentinite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Early Jurassic, 175 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.7 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.
Linnell Camp has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in July; winter nights fall to about 38° in January. About 10 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Linnell Camp normally reaches 65° and falls to 44°. The record high is 85°, in 1986; the record low 24°, in 1911. The most rain on this date, 0.90 in, fell in 1955.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1895 at Visalia, 5 miles west-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
