The Homestead 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.
Homestead’s center stands about 7,680 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 7,330 ft to 8,460 ft, a difference of 1,130 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Madre Mountain, about 9,520 ft, 11 miles north.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Middle Tertiary volcaniclastic sedimentary units (clastic, unconsolidated), from the Late Eocene to Oligocene, 23 to 38 million 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 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 10 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 0.1 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Felsic-volcanic. Age: Late Eocene to Early Oligocene, 31 to 36 million years old. About 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.
Homestead 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 Homestead 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, 16 miles east-southeast, 680 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
