The Pixley 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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24° on Nov. 17, 1961, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 26° in 1955.
Pixley’s center stands about 260 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 230 ft to 290 ft, a difference of 60 ft: gently rolling country.
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 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
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 18 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 6 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.
Pixley has a cold desert climate. Summer afternoons average 98° in July; winter nights fall to about 36° in December. Barely 0.0 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Pixley normally reaches 67° and falls to 41°. The record high is 79°, in 1995; the record low 31°, in 1985. The most rain on this date, 0.90 in, fell in 1953.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Corcoran Irrigation Dist., 19 miles west-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
