The Kingsbury 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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7° on Nov. 12, 2000, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1988. Next is 8° in 1994.
Kingsbury’s center stands about 7,110 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 5,910 ft to 9,220 ft, a difference of 3,310 ft: mountain country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Freel Peak, about 10,840 ft, 8 miles south.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Felsic phaneritic intrusive rocks (granodiorite, granite), from the Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old.
The section below crosses 8 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.
Granodiorite, granite. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Granodiorite. Age: Permian to Tertiary, 2.6 to 260 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 2 smaller units 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 Kingsbury reaches the Great Basin by way of the Carson: about 130 river miles. The Great Basin has no outlet to the sea: the water leaves only by evaporating or soaking into the ground.
Lake on the way: Lahontan Reservoir.
65 miles of the trip are on the Carson.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Kingsbury; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Kingsbury has a dry-summer warm-summer continental climate. Summer afternoons average 75° in July; winter nights fall to about 22° in December. About 22 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Kingsbury normally reaches 44° and falls to 28°. The record high is 60°, in 2016; the record low 15°, in 1993. The most rain on this date, 0.17 in, fell in 2006.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1988 at Dagget Pass, here, 220 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
