The Centerfield 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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74° on Nov. 16, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1895. Next is 71° in 1908.
Centerfield’s center stands about 5,100 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 5,050 ft to 5,440 ft, a difference of 390 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Marys Nipple, about 10,920 ft, 14 miles east-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvium and colluvium (unconsolidated), from the Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 8 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.
Unconsolidated. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Late Paleocene to Early Eocene, 48 to 59 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Limestone, mixed-clastic. Age: Late Paleocene to Early Eocene, 48 to 59 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale, marlstone. Age: Early Eocene to Late Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Mudstone. Age: Middle Jurassic, 164 to 175 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. 2 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 Centerfield reaches Sevier Lake by way of the Sevier: about 190 river miles. Sevier Lake 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 Centerfield; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Centerfield has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 16° in January. A normal year brings about 30 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 13 inches of water.
On November 14 Centerfield normally reaches 51° and falls to 25°. The record high is 70°, in 1999; the record low −3°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.62 in, fell in 1988.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1895 at Scipio, 17 miles west-northwest, 210 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
