The Veteran 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.
Veteran’s center stands about 4,220 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,180 ft to 4,310 ft, a difference of 130 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Sugar Bowl Rock, about 5,180 ft, 13 miles south-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows White River Formation - Chadron Member (claystone, sandstone, conglomerate), from the Oligocene, 23 to 34 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 34×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Claystone, sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Oligocene, 23 to 34 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Claystone, sandstone. Age: Oligocene, 23 to 34 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 3 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.
Veteran 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 north. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
