The Lakeview 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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69° on Nov. 14, 2021, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1949. Next is 66° in 1999.
Lakeview’s center stands about 1,210 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,070 ft to 1,880 ft, a difference of 810 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Monument Hill, about 2,860 ft, 14 miles west-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Younger glacial drift (fine-detrital, coarse-detrital), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 13×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Silt. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Basalt. Age: Late Oligocene to Early Pliocene, 3.6 to 28 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.
Lakeview has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 23° in January. About 8 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Lakeview normally reaches 46° and falls to 30°. The record high is 69°, in 2021; the record low 1°, in 1955. The most rain on this date, 0.38 in, fell in 1963.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1949 at Ephrata Airport, 5 miles south. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
