The Minersville 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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77° on Nov. 15, 2016, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1996. Next is 74° in 1999.
Minersville’s center stands about 5,160 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 5,070 ft to 5,580 ft, a difference of 510 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Granite Peak, about 9,500 ft, 13 miles northeast.
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 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 5×. 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 13 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Quartz-monzonite. Age: Early Oligocene to Early Miocene, 16 to 34 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Early Mississippian to Middle Mississippian, 331 to 359 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Felsic-volcanic. Age: Late Oligocene to Middle Miocene, 12 to 28 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 0.7 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.
Rain that falls on Minersville runs straight into the Great Basin. The Great Basin 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 Minersville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Minersville has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 95° in July; winter nights fall to about 17° in December. About 9 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1996 at Milford Municipal Airport, 12 miles north, 130 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
