The Datil 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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74° on Nov. 11, 1973, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1926. Next is 73° in 1967.
Datil’s center stands about 7,590 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 7,240 ft to 7,900 ft, a difference of 660 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Madre Mountain, about 9,520 ft, 11 miles north-northwest.
The section below crosses 5 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.
Clastic, unconsolidated. Age: Late Eocene to Oligocene, 23 to 38 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 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.
Felsic-volcanic. Age: Late Eocene to Early Oligocene, 31 to 36 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Basaltic-andesite, rhyolite. Age: Late Oligocene to Early Miocene, 16 to 28 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.
Datil has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in June; winter nights fall to about 16° in December. A normal year brings about 7 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 13 inches of water.
On November 14 Datil normally reaches 56° and falls to 23°. The record high is 73°, in 1967; the record low −3°, in 1929. The most rain on this date, 0.40 in, fell in 2001.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1926 at Augustine 2 E, 13 miles east-southeast, 590 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
