The Lovelock 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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73° on Nov. 14, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1895. Next is 72° in 1902.
Lovelock’s center stands about 3,980 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 3,950 ft to 4,110 ft, a difference of 160 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Trinity Peak, about 7,300 ft, 15 miles west-northwest.
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 4 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 14 mi of the line.
Clastic. Age: Late Triassic to Middle Jurassic, 164 to 227 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Granodiorite, granite. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 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.
Lovelock has a cold desert climate. Summer afternoons average 96° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in December. A normal year brings about 11 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 6 inches of water.
On November 14 Lovelock normally reaches 56° and falls to 25°. The record high is 73°, in 1999; the record low 2°, in 1930. The most rain on this date, 0.36 in, fell in 1965.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1895 at Lovelock, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
