The Maybell 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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−22° on Nov. 16, 2014, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1958. Next is −16° in 2000.
Maybell’s center stands about 5,920 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 5,870 ft to 6,380 ft, a difference of 510 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Coal Mountain, about 8,300 ft, 14 miles south.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Modern alluvium (unconsolidated), from the Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 10×. 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, siltstone. Age: Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Claystone, shale, sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Claystone, mudstone, sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous, 66 to 145 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. 1 smaller unit 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 Maybell reaches the Gulf of California by way of the Yampa, the Green River and the Colorado: about 1,420 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lake Mead, Lake Powell, Lake Mohave and Lake Havasu.
Seldom reaches the sea. Dams and canals now take nearly all of the Colorado before its old delta in Mexico.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Maybell; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Maybell has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 1° 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 Maybell normally reaches 46° and falls to 14°. The record high is 68°, in 1999; the record low −9°, in 2000. The most rain on this date, 0.35 in, fell in 1983.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1958 at Maybell, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
