The Ocean Park 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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16° on Nov. 14, 2014, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1980. Next is 19° in 1985.
Ocean Park’s center stands about 20 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 150 ft, a difference of 150 ft: gently rolling country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is McKenzie Head, about 220 ft, 14 miles south.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Eolian deposits (sand), from the Holocene, less than 12,000 years old.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 16×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Gravel, sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone. Age: Middle Eocene to Early Miocene, 16 to 48 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Quartz-monzonite, granite, basalt. Age: Eocene to Early Pliocene, 3.6 to 56 million years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Early Eocene to Middle Eocene, 38 to 56 million years old. About 0.4 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.
Rain that falls on Ocean Park runs only a short way, about 2 miles, to the Pacific Ocean.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Ocean Park; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Ocean Park has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate. Summer afternoons average 73° in August; winter nights fall to about 32° in February. About 84 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 1 inch of snow.
On November 14 Ocean Park normally reaches 52° and falls to 35°. The record high is 61°, in 2021; the record low 16°, in 2014. The most rain on this date, 2.72 in, fell in 2001.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1980 at Raymond 2 S, 19 miles northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
