The Timber Cove 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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27° on Nov. 12, 1985, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1895. Next is 29° in 1987.
Timber Cove’s center stands about 640 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 10 ft to 1,540 ft, a difference of 1,530 ft: steep hill country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Big Mountain, about 2,640 ft, 13 miles north-northeast.
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 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 8×. 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 4 mi of the line.
Melange. Age: Jurassic to Cretaceous, 66 to 202 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Serpentinite. Age: Middle Jurassic to Late Jurassic, 145 to 175 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Greenstone. Age: Jurassic to Cretaceous, 66 to 202 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, mudstone. Age: Paleocene to Middle Eocene, 38 to 66 million years old. About 0.8 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.
Rain that falls on Timber Cove runs only a short way, about 2 miles, to the Pacific Ocean.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Timber Cove; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Timber Cove has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate. Summer afternoons average 67° in August; winter nights fall to about 42° in January. About 39 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Timber Cove normally reaches 61° and falls to 44°. The record high is 73°, in 1990; the record low 30°, in 1985. The most rain on this date, 2.10 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1895 at Fort Ross, here, 530 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
