The North 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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67° on Nov. 11, 1948, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1899. Next is 66° in 2020.
North Creek’s center stands about 1,120 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,000 ft to 3,000 ft, a difference of 2,000 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Gore Mountain, about 3,600 ft, 3 miles west-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Undivided metasedimentary rock and related migmatite (metasedimentary, migmatite), from the Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old.
The section below crosses 9 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.
Charnockite, gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Charnockite, gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Metaanorthosite. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Metasedimentary, gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Metasedimentary, migmatite. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion 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. 3 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 North Creek reaches New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Hudson: about 260 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of North Creek; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
North Creek has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 75° in July; winter nights fall to about 6° in January. A normal year brings about 102 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 44 inches of water.
On November 14 North Creek normally reaches 42° and falls to 26°. The record high is 59°, in 2010; the record low 3°, in 1996. The most rain on this date, 1.20 in, fell in 1949.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1899 at Indian Lake 2 SW, 15 miles west-northwest, 550 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
