The Enterprise 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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73° on Nov. 11, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1905. Next is 72° in 2016.
Enterprise’s center stands about 5,320 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 5,270 ft to 5,960 ft, a difference of 690 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Atchinson Mountain, about 7,850 ft, 12 miles 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 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 10×. 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 14 mi of the line.
Felsic-volcanic. Age: Late Oligocene to Middle Miocene, 12 to 28 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Siltstone-mudstone. Age: Late Miocene, 5.5 to 12 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Basalt. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 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.
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 Enterprise reaches the Great Basin by way of Shoal Creek: about 11 river miles. The Great Basin has no outlet to the sea: the water leaves only by evaporating or soaking into the ground.
Often dry. About 100% 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 Enterprise; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Enterprise has a dry-summer hot-summer continental climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 17° in December. A normal year brings about 25 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 15 inches of water.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1905 at Enterprise, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
