The Clawson 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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1° on Nov. 16, 1955, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1897. Next is 7° in 1950.
Clawson’s center stands about 5,960 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 5,700 ft to 6,390 ft, a difference of 690 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Flagstaff Peak, about 10,170 ft, 12 miles west-southwest.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 4×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 72 to 100 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone-mudstone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 72 to 84 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Siltstone-mudstone. Age: Late Cretaceous to Paleocene, 56 to 100 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous, 94 to 125 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.
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 Clawson reaches the Gulf of California by way of Ferron Creek, the San Rafael, the Green River and the Colorado: about 1,200 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lake Mead, Lake Powell, Lake Mohave and Lake Havasu.
Seldom reaches the sea. Dams and canals now take nearly all of the Colorado before its old delta in Mexico.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Clawson; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Clawson has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 14° in January. A normal year brings about 25 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 9 inches of water.
On November 14 Clawson normally reaches 50° and falls to 25°. The record high is 69°, in 1989; the record low 14°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.57 in, fell in 1964.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1897 at Ferron, 4 miles southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
