The Oakley 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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−12° on Nov. 16, 1955, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is −3° in 1916.
Oakley’s center stands about 4,570 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,480 ft to 5,060 ft, a difference of 580 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Independence Mountain, about 10,310 ft, 12 miles east-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvial-fan deposits (gravel), from the Quaternary, less than 2.6 million 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 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 12 mi of the line.
Rhyolite. Age: Middle Miocene to Late Miocene, 8 to 14 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Orthogneiss, schist, amphibolite. Age: Neoarchean to Paleoproterozoic, 2.5 to 2.7 billion years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Rhyolite. Age: Early Miocene to Middle Miocene, 14 to 17 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Age: Carboniferous to Permian, 252 to 324 million years old. About 0.6 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.
Oakley has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 21° in January. A normal year brings about 25 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 12 inches of water.
On November 14 Oakley normally reaches 50° and falls to 28°. The record high is 71°, in 1999; the record low 5°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 0.83 in, fell in 1958.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Oakley, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
