The Daniel 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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−31° on Nov. 12, 2014, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1989. Next is −15° in 2018.
Daniel’s center stands about 7,200 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 7,150 ft to 7,540 ft, a difference of 390 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Cora Butte, about 7,890 ft, 5 miles northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvium and Colluvium (clay, silt, sand), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 27×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Clay, silt, sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Gravel. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Mudstone, conglomerate, sandstone. Age: Paleocene to Eocene, 34 to 66 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Oil-shale, marlstone, mudstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 2 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 Daniel reaches the Gulf of California by way of Prairie Creek, Horse Creek, Poole Slough, the Green River and the Colorado: about 1,650 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lake Mead, Lake Powell, Flaming Gorge Reservoir and Lake Mohave.
410 miles of the trip are on the Green River.
Seldom reaches the sea. Dams and canals now take nearly all of the Colorado before its old delta in Mexico.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Daniel; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Daniel has a subarctic climate. Summer afternoons average 77° in July; winter nights fall to about −6° in January. A normal year brings about 64 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 12 inches of water.
On November 14 Daniel normally reaches 39° and falls to 7°. The record high is 64°, in 1999; the record low −20°, in 2014. The most rain on this date, 0.52 in, fell in 2006.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1989 at Daniel Fish Hatchery, 5 miles north-northwest, 140 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
