The Berino 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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84° on Nov. 15, 2017, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1892. Next is 82° in 1899.
Berino’s center stands about 3,830 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 3,800 ft to 4,100 ft, a difference of 300 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is North Franklin Mountain, about 7,120 ft, 14 miles south-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Piedmont alluvial deposits (unconsolidated), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 11 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 8×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 0.1 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Conglomerate-sandstone, coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Late Miocene to Pleistocene, 0.1 to 7.2 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Granitic. Age: Proterozoic, 542 to 2,500 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Black-shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 0.9 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 5 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 Berino reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Rio Grande: about 1,280 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Paz Ramirez Lake and Amistad Reservoir.
670 miles of the trip are on the Rio Grande.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Berino; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Berino has a cold desert climate. Summer afternoons average 96° in June; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. About 9 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 1 inch of snow.
On November 14 Berino normally reaches 68° and falls to 37°. The record high is 82°, in 1899; the record low 16°, in 1929. The most rain on this date, 0.86 in, fell in 1968.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1892 at State University, 17 miles north-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
