The Stagecoach 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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75° on Nov. 16, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1911. Next is 74° in 1995.
Stagecoach’s center stands about 4,340 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,260 ft to 5,130 ft, a difference of 870 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Rawe Peak, about 8,290 ft, 13 miles south-southwest.
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 9 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 8 mi of the line.
Andesite, dacite. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 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 3 mi of the line.
Volcanic, carbonate, clastic. Age: Middle Triassic to Middle Jurassic, 164 to 247 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sedimentary, volcanic. Age: Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Hypabyssal-dacite, diorite, hypabyssal-quartz-latite. Age: Middle Eocene to Miocene, 5.3 to 48 million years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 3 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.
Stagecoach has a cold desert climate. Summer afternoons average 96° in July; winter nights fall to about 24° in December. About 5 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Stagecoach normally reaches 58° and falls to 32°. The record high is 73°, in 2025; the record low 12°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 0.60 in, fell in 1981.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1911 at Lahontan Dam, 18 miles east-northeast, 170 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
