The Albion 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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75° on Nov. 12, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1917. Next is 71° in 1934.
Albion’s center stands about 4,730 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,600 ft to 5,630 ft, a difference of 1,030 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Harrison, about 9,250 ft, 8 miles south-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Glacial deposits (coarse-detrital, fine-detrital), from the Pleistocene, 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 5×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Gravel. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Basalt. Age: Late Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 3 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Rhyolite. Age: Middle Miocene to Late Miocene, 8 to 14 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Orthogneiss, schist, amphibolite. Age: Neoarchean to Paleoproterozoic, 2.5 to 2.7 billion years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 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. 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 Albion reaches the Pacific Ocean by way of Marsh Creek, the Snake and the Columbia: about 1,000 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lake Umatilla, Brownlee Reservoir, Cove Arm Lake and Hells Canyon Reservoir.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Albion; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Albion has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 21° in January. About 10 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Albion normally reaches 49° and falls to 27°. The record high is 71°, in 1999; the record low 5°, in 1978. The most rain on this date, 0.66 in, fell in 1952.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1917 from the Burley Area threaded record (Burley Municipal Airport, 13 miles northwest, 590 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
