The Panguitch 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. 16, 2016, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1904. Next is 72° in 1967.
Panguitch’s center stands about 6,620 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 6,530 ft to 7,440 ft, a difference of 910 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Adams Head, about 10,380 ft, 14 miles east-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 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 6×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Volcanic. Age: Eocene to Miocene, 5.3 to 56 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Limestone, mudstone. Age: Late Paleocene to Early Oligocene, 28 to 59 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old. About 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 Panguitch reaches Sevier Lake by way of the Sevier: about 340 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 Panguitch; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Panguitch has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 7° in December. A normal year brings about 25 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 10 inches of water.
On November 14 Panguitch normally reaches 51° and falls to 16°. The record high is 72°, in 1967; the record low −4°, in 1938. The most rain on this date, 0.36 in, fell in 1988.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1904 at Panguitch, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
