The City of Creede 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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69° on Nov. 11, 1989, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1920. Next is 67° in 1973.
City of Creede’s center stands about 8,820 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 8,570 ft to 11,340 ft, a difference of 2,770 ft: mountain country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is San Luis Peak, about 13,950 ft, 10 miles north.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Oligocene sedimentary rocks (sandstone), from the Eocene to Oligocene, 23 to 56 million years old.
The section below crosses 6 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.
Volcanic. Age: Oligocene, 23 to 34 million years old. About 16 mi of the line.
Quartz-latite. Age: Oligocene, 23 to 34 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Eocene to Oligocene, 23 to 56 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene, less than 0.5 million years old. About 0.6 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 City of Creede reaches the Gulf of America by way of Willow Creek and the Rio Grande: about 1,860 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Paz Ramirez Lake, Amistad Reservoir, Elephant Butte Reservoir and Caballo Reservoir.
760 miles of the trip are on the Rio Grande.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of City of Creede; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
City of Creede has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 79° in July; winter nights fall to about −2° in January. A normal year brings about 55 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 13 inches of water.
On November 14 City of Creede normally reaches 47° and falls to 12°. The record high is 65°, in 1999; the record low −14°, in 1961. The most rain on this date, 0.65 in, fell in 1955.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1920 at Hermit 8 SE, 12 miles southwest, 130 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
