The Dietrich 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. 12, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1908. Next is 70° in 1934.
Dietrich’s center stands about 4,130 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 3,960 ft to 4,390 ft, a difference of 430 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Kinzie Butte, about 4,920 ft, 13 miles north-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Basalt (Pleistocene and Pliocene), from the Late Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 3 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 30×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Basalt. Age: Late Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 3 million years old. About 23 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.7 mi of the line.
Gravel, sand, silt. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.7 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.
Dietrich has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in July; winter nights fall to about 23° in January. About 10 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Dietrich normally reaches 50° and falls to 32°. The record high is 68°, in 2016; the record low 3°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 0.71 in, fell in 2006.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1908 at Shoshone 1 WNW, 8 miles west-northwest, 180 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
