The Kingston 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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75° on Nov. 16, 2016, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1981. Next is 72° in 1999.
Kingston’s center stands about 6,040 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 5,970 ft to 7,390 ft, a difference of 1,420 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Hawley, about 11,960 ft, 14 miles northwest.
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.
Felsic-volcanic. Age: Late Oligocene to Middle Miocene, 12 to 28 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Felsic-volcanic, andesite. Age: Late Eocene to Oligocene, 23 to 38 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Basalt. Age: Early Miocene to Middle Miocene, 12 to 23 million years old. About 0.6 mi of the line.
Rhyolite. Age: Pliocene, 2.6 to 5.3 million years old. About 0.3 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 Kingston reaches Sevier Lake by way of the East Fork Sevier and the Sevier: about 300 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 Kingston; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Kingston has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 85° in July; winter nights fall to about 6° in December. A normal year brings about 20 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 9 inches of water.
On November 14 Kingston normally reaches 52° and falls to 16°. The record high is 72°, in 1999; the record low 2°, in 2000. The most rain on this date, 0.16 in, fell in 1987.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1981 at Angle, 12 miles east-northeast, 370 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
