The Butterfield Park 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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83° on Nov. 13, 1973, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1914. Next is 82° in 1980.
Butterfield Park’s center stands about 4,620 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,420 ft to 5,380 ft, a difference of 960 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Organ Peak, about 8,790 ft, 8 miles 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 7 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.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Granitic, syenitic. Age: Eocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 56 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Andesite, latite. Age: Middle Eocene to Early Oligocene, 33 to 43 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 0.1 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale, conglomerate. Age: Middle Pennsylvanian, 307 to 315 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Felsic-volcanic. Age: Late Eocene to Early Oligocene, 31 to 36 million years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 1 smaller unit 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.
Butterfield Park has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 96° in June; winter nights fall to about 21° in January. About 10 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 1 inch of snow.
On November 14 Butterfield Park normally reaches 67° and falls to 30°. The record high is 80°, in 1973; the record low 12°, in 1979. The most rain on this date, 0.67 in, fell in 1968.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1914 at Jornada Experiment Range, 16 miles north-northwest, 300 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
