The Battle Mountain 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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78° on Nov. 16, 2021, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1944. Next is 75° in 2019.
Battle Mountain’s center stands about 4,510 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,490 ft to 4,540 ft, a difference of 50 ft: nearly flat ground. The highest named summit within 15 miles is North Peak, about 8,520 ft, 11 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvium, undifferentiated (coarse-detrital, fine-detrital), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 7×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale, siltstone. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Age: Cambrian to Devonian, 359 to 497 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sedimentary, volcanic. Age: Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 0.9 mi of the line.
Age: Devonian to Early Mississippian, 347 to 422 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.
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 Battle Mountain reaches the Great Basin by way of the Reese and the Humboldt: about 250 river miles. The Great Basin has no outlet to the sea: the water leaves only by evaporating or soaking into the ground.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Battle Mountain; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Battle Mountain has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 99° in July; winter nights fall to about 22° in January. A normal year brings about 21 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 9 inches of water.
On November 14 Battle Mountain normally reaches 58° and falls to 28°. The record high is 71°, in 2021; the record low 0°, in 1964. The most rain on this date, 0.78 in, fell in 1946.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1944 at Battle Mountain 4 SE, 4 miles southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
