The Plush 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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Plush’s center stands about 4,510 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,470 ft to 5,270 ft, a difference of 800 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Drake Peak, about 8,370 ft, 14 miles southwest.
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 9 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.
Age: Early Miocene to Middle Miocene, 12 to 23 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Gravel, boulders, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Rhyolite, dacite. Age: Eocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 56 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand, gravel, silt. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Rhyolite, dacite. Age: Late Eocene to Early Miocene, 16 to 38 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. 3 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.
A raindrop that lands in Plush reaches the desert basins of southern Oregon by way of Honey Creek: about 16 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.
Lake on the way: Hart Lake.
Often dry. About 30% of the way is mapped as streams that run only after rain or snowmelt; the water makes the whole trip in floods.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Plush; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
