The Pavillion 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. 15, 2016, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1919. Next is 67° in 1956.
Pavillion’s center stands about 5,460 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 5,290 ft to 5,800 ft, a difference of 510 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Shotgun Butte, about 6,370 ft, 15 miles north.
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 19×. 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.
Claystone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 0.6 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.
Pavillion has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 9° in December. A normal year brings about 28 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 9 inches of water.
On November 14 Pavillion normally reaches 45° and falls to 20°. The record high is 68°, in 2016; the record low −17°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.17 in, fell in 1958.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1919 at Pavillion, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
