The Olde Stockdale 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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89° on Nov. 11, 2016, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 88° in 1900.
Olde Stockdale’s center stands about 380 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 360 ft to 400 ft, a difference of 40 ft: nearly flat ground. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Round Mountain, about 1,590 ft, 14 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 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 22×. 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 16 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Miocene to Pleistocene, less than 23 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 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.
Olde Stockdale has a hot desert climate. Summer afternoons average 98° in July; winter nights fall to about 40° in December. About 6 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Olde Stockdale normally reaches 68° and falls to 46°. The record high is 85°, in 1933; the record low 24°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 0.61 in, fell in 1952.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 from the Bakersfield Area threaded record (Bakersfield Airport, 6 miles north-northeast, 110 ft higher). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
