The Meeker 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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72° on Nov. 16, 2016, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 71° in 1999.
Meeker’s center stands about 6,240 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 6,150 ft to 7,360 ft, a difference of 1,210 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Sawmill Mountain, about 9,480 ft, 14 miles east-northeast.
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 11 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, shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sandstone, arkose. Age: Carboniferous to Permian, 252 to 324 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Claystone, shale, sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone, mudstone, claystone. Age: Late Triassic to Late Jurassic, 145 to 237 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 5 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 Meeker reaches the Gulf of California by way of the White River, the Green River and the Colorado: about 1,410 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 Meeker; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Meeker has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 6° in January. A normal year brings about 65 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 17 inches of water.
On November 14 Meeker normally reaches 49° and falls to 19°. The record high is 67°, in 1999; the record low −14°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 0.47 in, fell in 2009.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Meeker, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
