The Fallon Station 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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8° on Nov. 16, 2014, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1945. Next is 9° in 1958.
Fallon Station’s center stands about 3,930 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 3,910 ft to 3,950 ft, a difference of 40 ft: nearly flat ground. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Pony Bob Peak, about 5,460 ft, 15 miles east-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Playa, lake bed, and flood plain deposits (coarse-detrital, fine-detrital), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 22×. 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 15 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Andesite, basalt. Age: Oligocene to Miocene, 5.3 to 34 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sedimentary, volcanic. Age: Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 0.5 mi of the line.
Rhyolite, hypabyssal-quartz-latite, dacite. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 0.4 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 Fallon Station reaches the Great Basin by way of the A Line Canal: about 2 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 Fallon Station; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Fallon Station has a cold desert climate. Summer afternoons average 96° in July; winter nights fall to about 20° in December. About 5 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Fallon Station normally reaches 57° and falls to 26°. The record high is 73°, in 2016; the record low 13°, in 1964. The most rain on this date, 0.34 in, fell in 1965.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1945 at Fallon Naas, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
