The Ferron 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.
Ferron’s center stands about 5,950 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 5,770 ft to 6,450 ft, a difference of 680 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Ferron Mountain, about 10,700 ft, 14 miles west.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Older alluvial deposits (coarse-detrital), from the Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 9 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.
Coarse-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 72 to 100 million years old. About 4 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 Cretaceous, 72 to 84 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 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.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 3 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 Ferron reaches the Gulf of California by way of Ferron Creek, the San Rafael, the Green River and the Colorado: about 1,210 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 Ferron; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Ferron 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 Ferron 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, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
