The Torrington 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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−15° on Nov. 13, 2014, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1952. Next is −10° in 2019.
Torrington’s center stands about 4,100 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,070 ft to 4,230 ft, a difference of 160 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Tea Kettle Rock, about 4,680 ft, 12 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 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 33×. 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 6 mi of the line.
Claystone, sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Oligocene, 23 to 34 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sand, unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Claystone, conglomerate. Age: Late Eocene to Early Oligocene, 31 to 35 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Claystone, sandstone. Age: Oligocene, 23 to 34 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, claystone. Age: Late Oligocene to Late Miocene, 5.3 to 28 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. 1 smaller unit along the line are not listed.
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 Torrington reaches the Gulf of America by way of the North Platte, the Platte, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 2,290 river miles.
1,170 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Torrington; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Torrington has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 12° in January. About 15 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1952 at Lingle 2 WSW, 12 miles west-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
