The Hines 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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69° on Nov. 11, 2016, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1939. Next is 67° in 1999.
Hines’s center stands about 4,150 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,130 ft to 5,100 ft, a difference of 970 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Burns Butte, about 5,260 ft, 4 miles west.
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 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 15×. 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 12 mi of the line.
Rhyolite, dacite. Age: Early Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Rhyolite, dacite. Age: Eocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 56 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Basalt. Age: Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Basalt, andesite. Age: Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 0.7 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 Hines reaches the desert basins of southern Oregon by way of the West Fork Silvies: about 25 river miles. The desert basins of southern Oregon 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 Hines; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hines has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 15° in December. About 10 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Hines normally reaches 48° and falls to 23°. The record high is 66°, in 1999; the record low −5°, in 1955. The most rain on this date, 0.34 in, fell in 1952.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1939 from the Burns Area threaded record (Burns Municipal Airport, 7 miles east-northeast). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
