The Paragonah 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 1983. Next is 71° in 1999.
Paragonah’s center stands about 5,910 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 5,720 ft to 7,910 ft, a difference of 2,190 ft: mountain country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Brian Head, about 11,300 ft, 14 miles south-southwest.
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 7 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 11 mi of the line.
Limestone, mudstone. Age: Late Paleocene to Early Oligocene, 28 to 59 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Volcanic. Age: Eocene to Miocene, 5.3 to 56 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Felsic-volcanic. Age: Late Oligocene to Middle Miocene, 12 to 28 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Basalt. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.9 mi of the line.
Sandstone-mudstone, sandstone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 72 to 94 million years old. About 0.6 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 1 smaller unit 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.
Paragonah has a dry-summer warm-summer continental climate. Summer afternoons average 85° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in December. A normal year brings about 55 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 17 inches of water.
On November 14 Paragonah normally reaches 52° and falls to 28°. The record high is 70°, in 1990; the record low 10°, in 2022. The most rain on this date, 1.25 in, fell in 1987.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1983 at Cedar City 5 E, 20 miles southwest, 560 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
