The Queen Creek 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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96° on Nov. 13, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1906. Next is 94° in 1953.
Queen Creek’s center stands about 1,400 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,350 ft to 1,450 ft, a difference of 100 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Santan Mountain, about 3,020 ft, 7 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Holocene surficial deposits (silt, clay), from the Holocene, less than 10,000 years old.
The section below crosses 5 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.
Silt, clay. Age: Holocene, less than 10,000 years old. About 20 mi of the line.
Granite, granodiorite, tonalite. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 1.8 billion years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand, gravel. Age: Holocene, less than 10,000 years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Metasedimentary, schist. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 1.8 billion years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
Gravel, sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 0.8 million years old. About 0.5 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.
Queen Creek has a hot desert climate. Summer afternoons average 107° in July; winter nights fall to about 36° in December. About 8 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Queen Creek normally reaches 79° and falls to 44°. The record high is 93°, in 1999; the record low 27°, in 1993. The most rain on this date, 1.36 in, fell in 1968.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1906 at Casa Grande Natl Monument, 18 miles south-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
