The Encino 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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−7° on Nov. 17, 2014, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1929. Next is −7° in 2018.
Encino’s center stands about 6,120 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 6,060 ft to 6,240 ft, a difference of 180 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Duran Mesa, about 7,060 ft, 12 miles south.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Lacustrine and playa-lake deposits (unconsolidated), from the Holocene, less than 12,000 years old.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 20×. 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, carbonate, evaporite. Age: Permian, 273 to 290 million years old. About 17 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 0.1 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Permian, 273 to 290 million years old. About 0.3 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.
Encino has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 18° in January. A normal year brings about 26 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 14 inches of water.
On November 14 Encino normally reaches 58° and falls to 26°. The record high is 73°, in 1967; the record low −3°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 0.40 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1929 at Pedernal 9 E, 3 miles south-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
