The Jackpot 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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−4° on Nov. 11, 2014, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1986. Next is −1° in 2000.
Jackpot’s center stands about 5,290 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 5,090 ft to 5,700 ft, a difference of 610 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Gollaher Mountain, about 8,130 ft, 14 miles east-southeast.
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 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.
Rhyolite. Age: Middle Miocene to Late Miocene, 8 to 14 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Volcanic. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 7 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.
Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sedimentary, volcanic. Age: Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 0.9 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 Jackpot reaches the Pacific Ocean by way of Shoshone Creek, Salmon Falls Creek, the Snake and the Columbia: about 980 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lake Umatilla, Brownlee Reservoir, Cove Arm Lake and Salmon Falls Creek Reservoir.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Jackpot; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Jackpot has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 12° in January. About 11 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Jackpot normally reaches 49° and falls to 19°. The record high is 70°, in 2016; the record low 4°, in 2022. The most rain on this date, 0.68 in, fell in 1991.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1986 at Jackpot, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
