The Madeline 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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78° on Nov. 17, 2008, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 72° in 1990.
Madeline’s center stands about 5,330 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 5,290 ft to 6,570 ft, a difference of 1,280 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is McDonald Peak, about 7,880 ft, 8 miles south-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Quaternary alluvium and marine deposits (coarse-detrital), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
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 7×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Andesite, basalt. Age: Late Oligocene to Pleistocene, 2 to 24 million years old. About 21 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 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.
Madeline has a dry-summer warm-summer continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 20° in December. A normal year brings about 82 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 19 inches of water.
On November 14 Madeline normally reaches 52° and falls to 26°. The record high is 71°, in 1999; the record low 1°, in 1978. The most rain on this date, 1.65 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Jess Valley, 18 miles north-northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
