The Foots 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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76° on Nov. 13, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1911. Next is 75° in 1999.
Foots Creek’s center stands about 1,020 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 990 ft to 3,010 ft, a difference of 2,020 ft: mountain country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Baldy, about 4,990 ft, 15 miles south.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvial deposits (sand, gravel, silt), from the Holocene, less than 12,000 years old.
The section below crosses 4 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.
Metaandesite, metabasalt, spilite. Age: Triassic to Jurassic, 145 to 252 million years old. About 18 mi of the line.
Sand, gravel, silt. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Peridotite, serpentinite. Age: Paleozoic to Jurassic, 145 to 542 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Mudstone, graywacke. Age: Paleozoic to Jurassic, 145 to 542 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 Foots Creek reaches the Pacific Ocean by way of Foots Creek and the Rogue: about 110 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Foots Creek; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Foots Creek has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 32° in January. About 18 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 3 inches of snow.
On November 14 Foots Creek normally reaches 54° and falls to 37°. The record high is 68°, in 1934; the record low 11°, in 1978. The most rain on this date, 1.43 in, fell in 1963.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1911 from the Medford Area threaded record (Medford International Airport, 14 miles east, 290 ft higher). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
