The Central Point 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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76° on Nov. 13, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1911. Next is 75° in 1999.
Central Point’s center stands about 1,270 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,200 ft to 1,890 ft, a difference of 690 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Anderson Butte, about 5,170 ft, 12 miles south.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Terrace, pediment, and lag gravels (gravel, boulders, clay), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 6×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Mixed-clastic. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Conglomerate. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Metaandesite, metabasalt, spilite. Age: Triassic to Jurassic, 145 to 252 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand, gravel, silt. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Gravel, boulders, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Basalt, andesite, basaltic-andesite. Age: Early Miocene to Late Miocene, 10 to 17 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.
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 Central Point reaches the Pacific Ocean by way of Bear Creek and the Rogue: about 130 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Central Point; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Central Point has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 32° in January. About 18 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 3 inches of snow.
On November 14 Central Point normally reaches 54° and falls to 37°. The record high is 68°, in 1934; the record low 11°, in 1978. The most rain on this date, 1.43 in, fell in 1963.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1911 from the Medford Area threaded record (Medford International Airport, here). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
