The Trout 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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64° on Nov. 13, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1960. Next is 59° in 1990.
Trout Creek’s center stands about 2,370 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,330 ft to 5,060 ft, a difference of 2,730 ft: mountain country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Flat Top Mountain, about 7,550 ft, 13 miles north.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Gravel, from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 1.8 million years old.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 5×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Quartzite, argillite, metasiltstone. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Metasiltstone, argillite, quartzite. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Quartzite, metasiltstone, argillite. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 1.8 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Metasiltstone, argillite. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 1 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 Trout Creek reaches the Pacific Ocean by way of Noxon Rapids Reservoir, the Clark Fork, the Pend Oreille and the Columbia: about 900 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lake Pend Oreille, Lake Umatilla and Noxon Rapids Reservoir.
460 miles of the trip are on the Columbia.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Trout Creek; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Trout Creek has a dry-summer warm-summer continental climate. Summer afternoons average 85° in July; winter nights fall to about 22° in January. A normal year brings about 51 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 27 inches of water.
On November 14 Trout Creek normally reaches 41° and falls to 29°. The record high is 61°, in 1999; the record low 6°, in 1978. The most rain on this date, 1.32 in, fell in 2007.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1960 at Trout Creek Rs, 2 miles north-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
