The Bovill 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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Bovill’s center stands about 2,870 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,830 ft to 3,650 ft, a difference of 820 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Elk Butte, about 5,810 ft, 13 miles east.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Piegan Group (metasiltstone, quartzite), from the Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 7×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Metasiltstone, quartzite. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Mixed-clastic. Age: Early Miocene to Late Miocene, 8 to 17 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Dacite, andesite, rhyolite. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Metasiltstone, argillite. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Basalt, basaltic-andesite. Age: Early Miocene to Late Miocene, 6 to 18 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Quartzite. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion 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.
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 Bovill reaches the Pacific Ocean by way of the Potlatch, the Clearwater, the Snake and the Columbia: about 520 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Umatilla.
210 miles of the trip are on the Columbia.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Bovill; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
