The Warren AFB 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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75° on Nov. 15, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1871. Next is 75° in 2016.
Warren AFB’s center stands about 6,110 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 6,050 ft to 6,300 ft, a difference of 250 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Terry Anticline, about 6,450 ft, 9 miles south.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 20×. 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, claystone, conglomerate. Age: Late Miocene, 5.3 to 12 million years old. About 23 mi of the line.
Clay, silt, sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.8 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 Warren AFB reaches the Gulf of America by way of the South Platte, the Platte, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 2,450 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 Warren AFB; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Warren AFB has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 18° in January. A normal year brings about 63 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 15 inches of water.
On November 14 Warren AFB normally reaches 48° and falls to 25°. The record high is 71°, in 2025; the record low −7°, in 1872. The most rain on this date, 0.25 in, fell in 2009.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1871 from the Cheyenne Area threaded record (Cheyenne Wsfo Airport, 3 miles east-northeast). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
