The Taylors Island 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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5.96 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1893. The next wettest, 4.55 inches, fell in 2009.
Taylors Island’s center stands barely above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 60 ft, a difference of 60 ft: gently rolling country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Fort Hill, about 170 ft, 10 miles west-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Quaternary Deposits Undivided (fine-detrital, coarse-detrital), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
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.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 13 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.
Rain that falls on Taylors Island runs straight into Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Taylors Island; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Taylors Island has a cold desert climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. Barely 0.0 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Taylors Island normally reaches 59° and falls to 44°. The record high is 79°, in 1955; the record low 28°, in 1911. The most rain on this date, 0.79 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Solomons, 13 miles southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
