The Eads 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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−10° on Nov. 13, 2014, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1907. Next is −8° in 1916.
Eads’s center stands about 4,220 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,110 ft to 4,270 ft, a difference of 160 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Eolian deposits (sand, silt), from the Quaternary, 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 41×. 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, silt. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Gravel, unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene, 0.2 to 1.6 million years old. About 2 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.
Eads has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 16° in January. A normal year brings about 14 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 16 inches of water.
On November 14 Eads normally reaches 56° and falls to 26°. The record high is 77°, in 1941; the record low −6°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 0.72 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1907 at Eads, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
