The Fence Lake 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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Fence Lake’s center stands about 7,050 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 6,910 ft to 7,320 ft, a difference of 410 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Chimney Hill, about 7,730 ft, 14 miles east-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Moreno Hill Formation and Atarque Sandstone (sandstone, shale), from the Late Cretaceous, 90 to 94 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 19×. 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, shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 90 to 94 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 94 to 100 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Conglomerate-sandstone, coarse-detrital. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Andesite, basalt. Age: Pleistocene, 0.1 to 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 0.1 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Clastic. Age: Late Oligocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 28 million years old. About 0.7 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.
A raindrop that lands in Fence Lake reaches the Gulf of California by way of the Zu¿i, the Little Colorado and the Colorado: about 1,090 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lake Mead, Lake Mohave and Lake Havasu.
290 miles of the trip are on the Colorado.
Often dry. About 30% of the way is mapped as streams that run only after rain or snowmelt; the water makes the whole trip in floods.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Fence Lake; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
