The Granite Falls 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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69° on Nov. 14, 2016, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1894. Next is 67° in 1939.
Granite Falls’s center stands about 430 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 190 ft to 1,590 ft, a difference of 1,400 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Three Fingers, about 6,670 ft, 14 miles east-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Younger glacial drift (fine-detrital, coarse-detrital), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 8 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.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Argillite, graywacke. Age: Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, 100 to 164 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Silt, sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Graywacke, argillite, slate. Age: Late Triassic to Paleocene, 56 to 237 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Graywacke, argillite, phyllite. Age: Middle Jurassic to Eocene, 34 to 175 million years old. About 0.9 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 2 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 Granite Falls reaches the Pacific Ocean by way of the South Fork Stillaguamish, the Stillaguamish and the West Pass: about 40 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Granite Falls; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Granite Falls has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate. Summer afternoons average 76° in August; winter nights fall to about 34° in February. About 40 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Granite Falls normally reaches 53° and falls to 38°. The record high is 69°, in 2016; the record low 11°, in 1955. The most rain on this date, 1.30 in, fell in 1966.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1894 at Everett, 13 miles southwest, 380 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
