The Stebbins 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, 1973, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1940. Next is 86° in 2016.
Stebbins’s center stands about 310 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 290 ft to 330 ft, a difference of 40 ft: nearly flat ground. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Hillcrest Point, about 1,530 ft, 14 miles southwest.
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 18×. 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 15 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate. 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.
Stebbins has a hot desert climate. Summer afternoons average 98° in July; winter nights fall to about 36° in December. About 6 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Stebbins normally reaches 68° and falls to 41°. The record high is 82°, in 1990; the record low 30°, in 1985. The most rain on this date, 0.39 in, fell in 1953.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1940 at Buttonwillow, 9 miles west. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
