The Emery 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.
Emery’s center stands about 6,280 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 6,090 ft to 7,710 ft, a difference of 1,620 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is White Mountain, about 10,830 ft, 14 miles west-northwest.
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 7 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 10 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 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 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone-mudstone. Age: Late Jurassic, 145 to 164 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. 1 smaller unit 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 Emery reaches the Gulf of California by way of Muddy Creek, the Dirty Devil and the Colorado: about 1,110 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lake Mead, Lake Powell, Lake Mohave and Lake Havasu.
290 miles of the trip are on the Colorado.
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 Emery; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Emery 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 Emery 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, 13 miles north-northeast, 330 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
