The Teton 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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−18° on Nov. 16, 2014, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1907. Next is −15° in 1955.
Teton’s center stands about 4,950 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,900 ft to 5,060 ft, a difference of 160 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is White Owl Butte, about 6,330 ft, 10 miles south-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvial deposits (gravel, sand, silt), from the Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 13×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Rhyolite. Age: Pleistocene, 0.6 to 2 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Gravel, sand, silt. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Basalt. Age: Late Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 3 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 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 Teton reaches the Pacific Ocean by way of the South Teton, the Henrys Fork, the Snake and the Columbia: about 1,180 river miles.
Lakes on the way: American Falls Reservoir, Lake Umatilla, Brownlee Reservoir and Cove Arm Lake.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Teton; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Teton has a cold desert climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in August; winter nights fall to about 9° in January. Barely 0.0 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Teton normally reaches 44° and falls to 21°. The record high is 64°, in 1953; the record low −3°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.40 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1907 at Sugar City, 3 miles west. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
