The Meadow 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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−3° on Nov. 13, 1916, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 2° in 1955.
Meadow’s center stands about 4,860 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,710 ft to 5,640 ft, a difference of 930 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mine Camp Peak, about 10,200 ft, 8 miles east.
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 10 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.
Unconsolidated. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Late Paleocene to Early Eocene, 48 to 59 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Arenite. Age: Early Jurassic, 175 to 202 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Arenite. Age: Early Cambrian to Middle Cambrian, 497 to 542 million years old. About 2 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. 4 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.
Meadow has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 21° in January. A normal year brings about 62 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 15 inches of water.
On November 14 Meadow normally reaches 50° and falls to 29°. The record high is 81°, in 1906; the record low 3°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 0.85 in, fell in 1988.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Fillmore, 7 miles northeast, 270 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
