The Capulin 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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76° on Nov. 11, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1995. Next is 76° in 2016.
Capulin’s center stands about 6,840 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 6,760 ft to 7,260 ft, a difference of 500 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Laughlin Peak, about 8,790 ft, 13 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvium (unconsolidated), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 0.1 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 9×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Basalt, andesite. Age: Pliocene, 2.6 to 5.3 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 0.1 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Dacite, andesite, rhyolite. Age: Tertiary Neogene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Andesite, basalt. Age: Pleistocene, 0.1 to 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Basalt, andesite. Age: Tertiary Neogene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 1 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.
Capulin has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 14° in December. A normal year brings about 41 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 18 inches of water.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1995 at Capulin, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
