The Stevinson 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, 1921, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1902. Next is 86° in 2019.
Stevinson’s center stands about 80 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 70 ft to 110 ft, a difference of 40 ft: nearly flat ground.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Quaternary sand deposits, unit 2 (inland), from the Quaternary, 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.
Sand. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 11 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 Stevinson reaches San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean by way of the San Joaquin and New York Slough: about 130 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Stevinson; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Stevinson has a hot semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 100° in July; winter nights fall to about 38° in January. About 12 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Stevinson normally reaches 71° and falls to 43°. The record high is 83°, in 1921; the record low 21°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 1.25 in, fell in 1965.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1902 at Newman, 10 miles west-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
