The Yerington 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. 14, 1941, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1894. Next is 74° in 1921.
Yerington’s center stands about 4,580 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,370 ft to 4,960 ft, a difference of 590 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Black Mountain, about 8,100 ft, 11 miles east.
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 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.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Felsic-volcanic. Age: Oligocene to Early Miocene, 16 to 34 million years old. About 4 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 3 mi of the line.
Granitic, granodiorite, quartz-monzonite. Age: Jurassic, 145 to 202 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Granodiorite, granite. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 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. 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.
A raindrop that lands in Yerington reaches Walker Lake by way of the Walker: about 50 river miles. Walker Lake 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 Yerington; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Yerington has a cold desert climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 22° in December. About 5 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 3 inches of snow.
On November 14 Yerington normally reaches 56° and falls to 28°. The record high is 75°, in 1941; the record low 1°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 0.92 in, fell in 1981.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1894 at Yerington, 4 miles northwest, 200 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
