The Redcrest 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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5.57 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1926. The next wettest, 4.77 inches, fell in 1984.
Redcrest’s center stands about 420 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 90 ft to 2,250 ft, a difference of 2,160 ft: mountain country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Larabee Buttes, about 4,160 ft, 12 miles east.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Tertiary-Cretaceous Coastal Belt Rocks (sandstone, mudstone), from the Late Cretaceous to Pliocene, 2.6 to 100 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 6×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone, mudstone. Age: Late Cretaceous to Pliocene, 2.6 to 100 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Mudstone, sandstone. Age: Paleocene to Late Eocene, 34 to 66 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sandstone, mudstone. Age: Jurassic to Cretaceous, 66 to 202 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sandstone, mudstone. Age: Miocene to Pleistocene, less than 23 million years old. About 3 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 Redcrest reaches the Pacific Ocean by way of the Eel: about 35 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Redcrest; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Redcrest has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate. Summer afternoons average 73° in September; winter nights fall to about 42° in December. About 48 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Redcrest normally reaches 61° and falls to 45°. The record high is 74°, in 1999; the record low 30°, in 1978. The most rain on this date, 2.96 in, fell in 1953.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1926 at Scotia, 10 miles northwest, 280 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
