The Pistol River 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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5.54 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1948. The next wettest, 3.97 inches, fell in 2007.
Pistol River’s center stands about 15 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 1,770 ft, a difference of 1,770 ft: steep hill country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Collier Butte, about 4,240 ft, 15 miles east-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvial deposits (sand, gravel, silt), from the Holocene, less than 12,000 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 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.
Graywacke, mudstone. Age: Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, 129 to 153 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Graywacke, mudstone. Age: Late Jurassic, 145 to 153 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Pelitic-schist. Age: Paleozoic to Cretaceous, 66 to 542 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sand, gravel, silt. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Graywacke. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 0.8 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.
Rain that falls on Pistol River runs straight into the Pacific Ocean.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Pistol River; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Pistol River has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate. Summer afternoons average 69° in September; winter nights fall to about 42° in February. About 75 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Pistol River normally reaches 57° and falls to 45°. The record high is 69°, in 2008; the record low 29°, in 1978. The most rain on this date, 1.92 in, fell in 1963.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Gold Beach Rs, 9 miles north. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
