The Cooks Valley 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. 17, 1959, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1944. Next is −3° in 1986.
Cooks Valley’s center stands about 1,060 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,000 ft to 1,300 ft, a difference of 300 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Pikes Peak, about 1,250 ft, 14 miles northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Cambrian, undivided (sandstone), from the Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 42×. 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: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 24 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 Cooks Valley reaches the Gulf of America by way of Como Creek, Duncan Creek, the Chippewa and the Mississippi: about 1,840 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Cooks Valley; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Cooks Valley has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 3° in January. A normal year brings about 42 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 32 inches of water.
On November 14 Cooks Valley normally reaches 41° and falls to 25°. The record high is 67°, in 1999; the record low 1°, in 1976. The most rain on this date, 0.69 in, fell in 2010.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1944 at Bloomer, 5 miles east. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
