The Jemez Springs 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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76° on Nov. 11, 2006, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1910. Next is 74° in 1967.
Jemez Springs’s center stands about 6,250 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 6,060 ft to 8,150 ft, a difference of 2,090 ft: mountain country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Redondo Peak, about 11,280 ft, 10 miles northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Abo Formation (sandstone), from the Permian, 284 to 299 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 4×. 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. Age: Permian, 284 to 299 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Felsic-volcanic. Age: Pleistocene, 1.8 to 2.6 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Rhyolite. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Granitic, gneiss. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 1.7 billion years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, carbonate, evaporite. Age: Permian, 273 to 290 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 0.1 million years old. About 0.6 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 Jemez Springs reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Jemez and the Rio Grande: about 1,620 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Paz Ramirez Lake, Amistad Reservoir, Elephant Butte Reservoir and Caballo Reservoir.
760 miles of the trip are on the Rio Grande.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Jemez Springs; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Jemez Springs has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in January. A normal year brings about 23 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 15 inches of water.
On November 14 Jemez Springs normally reaches 57° and falls to 27°. The record high is 73°, in 1999; the record low 7°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 0.83 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1910 at Jemez Springs, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
