The Bay Center 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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16° on Nov. 14, 2014, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1980. Next is 19° in 1985.
Bay Center’s center stands about 40 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 270 ft, a difference of 270 ft: rolling country. Open water lies within three miles.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 20×. 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: Early Paleocene to Middle Eocene, 40 to 64 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Gravel, sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 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 Bay Center reaches the Pacific Ocean by way of the Palix: about 2 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Bay Center; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Bay Center has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate. Summer afternoons average 73° in August; winter nights fall to about 32° in February. About 84 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 1 inch of snow.
On November 14 Bay Center normally reaches 52° and falls to 35°. The record high is 61°, in 2021; the record low 16°, in 2014. The most rain on this date, 2.72 in, fell in 2001.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1980 at Raymond 2 S, 11 miles east. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
