The Maples 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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3.25 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1897. The next wettest, 2.79 inches, fell in 1992.
Maples’s center stands about 800 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 780 ft to 860 ft, a difference of 80 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Muscatatuck Group (limestone, dolostone), from the Devonian, 359 to 422 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 64×. 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, dolostone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 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.
A raindrop that lands in Maples reaches Lake Erie by way of Flatrock Creek, the Auglaize and the Maumee: about 120 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
65 miles of the trip are on the Maumee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Maples; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Maples has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in January. A normal year brings about 34 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 40 inches of water.
On November 14 Maples normally reaches 50° and falls to 33°. The record high is 75°, in 1902; the record low 11°, in 1996. The most rain on this date, 1.43 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1897 from the Fort Wayne Area threaded record (Fort Wayne International Airport, 13 miles west-southwest). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
