The Odell 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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22° on Nov. 15, 1909, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1894. Next is 22° in 1911.
Odell’s center stands about 720 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 420 ft to 2,080 ft, a difference of 1,660 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Defiance, about 4,950 ft, 9 miles west.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Basalt and basaltic andesite (basaltic-andesite, basalt), from the Early Pliocene to Pleistocene, 1.2 to 3.9 million years old.
The section below crosses 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 5×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Basaltic-andesite, basalt. Age: Early Pliocene to Pleistocene, 1.2 to 3.9 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Basalt. Age: Middle Miocene, 12 to 16 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, mudstone. Age: Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Basalt. Age: Middle Miocene to Late Miocene, 5.3 to 16 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Basalt. Age: Early Miocene to Middle Miocene, 12 to 23 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Basaltic-andesite, basalt. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 1 smaller unit 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 Odell reaches the Pacific Ocean by way of Odell Creek, the Hood and the Columbia: about 170 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Odell; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Odell has a cold desert climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in August; winter nights fall to about 33° in January. Barely 0.0 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Odell normally reaches 51° and falls to 39°. The record high is 65°, in 1906; the record low 25°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 2.77 in, fell in 1896.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1894 at Cascade Locks, 16 miles west-northwest, 580 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
