The Powers 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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24° on Nov. 17, 2014, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1951. Next is 30° in 2000.
Powers’s center stands about 270 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 210 ft to 1,930 ft, a difference of 1,720 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Bolivar, about 4,280 ft, 14 miles east-southeast.
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.
Mudstone, sandstone. Age: Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous, 66 to 164 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Middle Eocene, 38 to 48 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Siltstone, sandstone, mudstone. Age: Early Eocene, 48 to 56 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Siltstone, sandstone. Age: Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, 125 to 153 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand, gravel, silt. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 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.
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 Powers reaches the Pacific Ocean by way of the South Fork Coquille and the Coquille: about 65 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Powers; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Powers has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate. Summer afternoons average 70° in August; winter nights fall to about 39° in February. About 70 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1951 at Langlois #2, 19 miles west, 170 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
