The Verdi 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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73° on Nov. 14, 2016, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1996. Next is 71° in 1999.
Verdi’s center stands about 5,140 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,820 ft to 7,670 ft, a difference of 2,850 ft: mountain country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Rose, about 10,740 ft, 13 miles south-southeast.
The section below crosses 10 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 4×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Andesite, basalt. Age: Late Oligocene to Pleistocene, 2 to 24 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Andesite, dacite. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Mafic-volcanic, greenstone. Age: Paleozoic to Mesozoic, 66 to 542 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Mafic-volcanic, felsic-volcanic. Age: Permian to Jurassic, 145 to 260 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Basalt, basaltic-andesite. Age: Pliocene to Holocene, less than 5.3 million years old. About 0.7 mi of the line.
Sedimentary, volcanic. Age: Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 0.7 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 4 smaller units along the line are not listed.
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 Verdi reaches Pyramid Lake by way of South Branch Dog Creek and the Truckee: about 75 river miles. Pyramid Lake has no outlet to the sea: the water leaves only by evaporating or soaking into the ground.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Verdi; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Verdi has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 27° in December. A normal year brings about 30 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 8 inches of water.
On November 14 Verdi normally reaches 55° and falls to 33°. The record high is 73°, in 2016; the record low 23°, in 2022. The most rain on this date, 0.08 in, fell in 2025.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1996 at Reno Wfo, 12 miles east-northeast, 150 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
