The Stockton 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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−7° on Nov. 16, 1955, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1896. Next is 1° in 1916.
Stockton’s center stands about 5,120 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,840 ft to 7,400 ft, a difference of 2,560 ft: mountain country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Deseret Peak, about 10,960 ft, 14 miles west.
The section below crosses 8 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.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous to Permian, 273 to 324 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Sandstone, limestone. Age: Carboniferous to Permian, 273 to 324 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Mississippian to Early Pennsylvanian, 315 to 331 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. 2 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.
Stockton has a dry-summer hot-summer continental climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 21° in January. A normal year brings about 75 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 18 inches of water.
On November 14 Stockton normally reaches 50° and falls to 30°. The record high is 73°, in 2016; the record low 1°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 1.11 in, fell in 1987.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1896 at Tooele, 6 miles north-northeast, 180 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
