The Melrose 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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15° on Nov. 15, 1955, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1899. Next is 19° in 1961.
Melrose’s center stands about 460 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 370 ft to 1,130 ft, a difference of 760 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Dodson Butte, about 3,180 ft, 14 miles southeast.
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 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.
Basalt. Age: Paleocene to Middle Eocene, 38 to 66 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Middle Eocene, 38 to 48 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sand, gravel, silt. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Middle Eocene, 38 to 48 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Paleocene to Early Eocene, 48 to 66 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Siltstone, sandstone, mudstone. Age: Early Eocene, 48 to 56 million years old. About 0.3 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 Melrose reaches the Pacific Ocean by way of Champagne Creek and the Umpqua: about 110 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Melrose; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Melrose has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 37° in January. About 32 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Melrose normally reaches 54° and falls to 41°. The record high is 68°, in 2001; the record low 17°, in 1955. The most rain on this date, 2.01 in, fell in 1941.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1899 at Roseburg Regional Airport, 5 miles east-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
