The Crane 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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72° on Nov. 13, 1986, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1937. Next is 69° in 1949.
Crane’s center stands about 4,130 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,110 ft to 4,950 ft, a difference of 840 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Crowcamp Mountain, about 5,880 ft, 8 miles north-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Lacustrine and fluvial sedimentary rocks (clay, silt, sand), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 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 12×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Clay, silt, sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Rhyolite, dacite. Age: Early Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Basalt, andesite. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Rhyolite. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Basalt. Age: Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Basalt, basaltic-andesite. Age: Pleistocene, 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.
Crane has a dry-summer warm-summer continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 20° in January. About 12 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Crane normally reaches 48° and falls to 24°. The record high is 68°, in 1986; the record low −2°, in 1978. The most rain on this date, 0.45 in, fell in 1965.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1937 at Malheur Refuge Headquarters, 17 miles southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
