The Lakeview 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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Lakeview’s center stands about 6,740 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 6,610 ft to 8,600 ft, a difference of 1,990 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Baldy Mountain, about 9,870 ft, 4 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvial fan deposit (unconsolidated), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 1.8 million years old.
The section below crosses 10 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 6×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Volcanic. Age: Pliocene to Pleistocene, 1.8 to 5.3 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 1.8 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand, silt, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 1.8 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale, conglomerate. Age: Late Cretaceous, 90 to 100 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Rhyolite. Age: Late Miocene to Late Pliocene, 3 to 6.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 4 smaller units 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 Lakeview reaches the Gulf of America by way of Shambow Creek, Odell Creek, Red Rock Creek, the Red Rock, the Beaverhead, the Jefferson, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 3,730 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lake Oahe, Lake Sakakawea, Lake Fort Peck and Lake Sharpe.
1,170 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Lakeview; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
