The Sutherland 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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−3° on Nov. 12, 2012, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1965. Next is 3° in 2014.
Sutherland’s center stands about 4,620 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,590 ft to 4,660 ft, a difference of 70 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Sixmile Point, about 5,310 ft, 15 miles east-southeast.
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 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. 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 18 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 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.
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 Sutherland reaches Sevier Lake by way of the Sevier: about 45 river miles. Sevier Lake has no outlet to the sea: the water leaves only by evaporating or soaking into the ground.
Often dry. About 80% of the way is mapped as streams that run only after rain or snowmelt; the water makes the whole trip in floods.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Sutherland; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Sutherland has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 95° in July; winter nights fall to about 15° in December. A normal year brings about 25 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 8 inches of water.
On November 14 Sutherland normally reaches 52° and falls to 23°. The record high is 74°, in 1967; the record low 6°, in 2012. The most rain on this date, 0.34 in, fell in 1971.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1965 at Delta, 5 miles southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
