The Mill 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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6.62 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1887. The next wettest, 3.32 inches, fell in 1957.
Mill Creek’s center stands about 380 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 360 ft to 660 ft, a difference of 300 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Italian Hill, about 900 ft, 4 miles west-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Ft. Payne Formation (limestone, shale), from the Early Mississippian to Middle Mississippian, 331 to 359 million years old.
The section below crosses 10 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 37×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Limestone. Age: Silurian to Early Devonian, 394 to 425 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Middle Mississippian, 331 to 347 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Limestone, sandstone, shale. Age: Middle Mississippian, 331 to 347 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Early Mississippian to Middle Mississippian, 331 to 359 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Middle Mississippian, 331 to 347 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Middle Mississippian, 331 to 347 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 4 smaller units along the line are not listed.
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 Mill Creek reaches the Gulf of America by way of Mill Creek, the Old Channel, the Cache and the Mississippi: about 1,010 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Mill Creek; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Mill Creek has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 25° in January. A normal year brings about 10 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 51 inches of water.
On November 14 Mill Creek normally reaches 60° and falls to 37°. The record high is 79°, in 1999; the record low 10°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 2.04 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1887 at Anna 4 N, 13 miles north, 210 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
