The Meridian Village 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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76° on Nov. 15, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1984. Next is 75° in 1989.
Meridian Village’s center stands about 5,930 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 5,730 ft to 6,330 ft, a difference of 600 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Cherokee Mountain, about 6,640 ft, 8 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Older gravels and alluviums (gravel, unconsolidated), from the Pleistocene, 0.2 to 1.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 16×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Arkose, conglomerate, shale. Age: Paleocene to Eocene, 34 to 66 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Arkose, shale, mudstone. Age: Late Cretaceous to Paleocene, 56 to 100 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand, silt. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Gravel, unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene, 0.2 to 1.6 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.
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 Meridian Village reaches the Gulf of America by way of Happy Canyon Creek, Cherry Creek, the South Platte, the Platte, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 2,420 river miles.
1,170 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Meridian Village; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Meridian Village has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 14° in January. A normal year brings about 86 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 20 inches of water.
On November 14 Meridian Village normally reaches 52° and falls to 24°. The record high is 73°, in 2007; the record low −5°, in 2014. The most rain on this date, 0.34 in, fell in 1991.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1984 at Strontia Springs Dam, 17 miles west-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
