The Modena 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.
Modena’s center stands about 5,460 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 5,350 ft to 6,240 ft, a difference of 890 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Government Peak, about 8,720 ft, 15 miles north-northwest.
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 8×. 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 12 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Felsic-volcanic, mafic-volcanic. Age: Late Eocene to Oligocene, 23 to 38 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.
Modena 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, 19 miles southeast, 140 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
