The Mountain View Colony 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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77° on Nov. 12, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1934. Next is 71° in 1990.
Mountain View Colony’s center stands about 3,870 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 3,740 ft to 4,070 ft, a difference of 330 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Tullock Member of Fort Union Formation (sandstone), from the Early Paleocene, 62 to 66 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 23×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 84 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 72 to 84 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, black-shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 84 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Early Paleocene, 62 to 66 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 72 to 84 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone, bentonite. Age: Early Paleocene, 62 to 66 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.
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.
Mountain View Colony has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in July; winter nights fall to about 18° in January. A normal year brings about 57 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 14 inches of water.
On November 14 Mountain View Colony normally reaches 46° and falls to 27°. The record high is 70°, in 1999; the record low −10°, in 1955. The most rain on this date, 0.49 in, fell in 1961.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1934 from the Billings Area threaded record (Billings International Airport, 20 miles south-southeast, 280 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
