The Yoder 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.
Yoder’s center stands about 4,250 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,220 ft to 4,310 ft, a difference of 90 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Sugar Bowl Rock, about 5,180 ft, 13 miles 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 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 31×. 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 15 mi of the line.
Claystone, sandstone. Age: Oligocene, 23 to 34 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Clay, silt, sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.9 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.
Yoder 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, 15 miles north-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
