The House 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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6° on Nov. 17, 2014, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1935. Next is 9° in 1959.
House’s center stands about 4,700 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,640 ft to 4,820 ft, a difference of 180 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Sand Mountain, about 5,010 ft, 15 miles north-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Older alluvial deposits of upland plains and piedmont areas, and calcic soils and eolian cover sediments of High Plains region (unconsolidated), from the Pleistocene, 0.1 to 2.6 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 27×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene, 0.1 to 2.6 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sandstone, mudstone. Age: Late Triassic, 202 to 237 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Middle Miocene to Early Pliocene, 3.6 to 16 million years old. About 2 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.
House has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 23° in January. A normal year brings about 17 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 17 inches of water.
On November 14 House normally reaches 60° and falls to 31°. The record high is 81°, in 1981; the record low 11°, in 1976. The most rain on this date, 0.93 in, fell in 1961.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1935 at Ragland 3 SSW, 13 miles northeast, 360 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
