The Hoodsport 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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7.76 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1973. The next wettest, 7.15 inches, fell in 2003.
Hoodsport’s center stands barely above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 10 ft to 1,720 ft, a difference of 1,710 ft: steep hill country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Skokomish, about 6,310 ft, 15 miles north-northwest.
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 6×. 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 10 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 10 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.
Rain that falls on Hoodsport runs straight into Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Hoodsport; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hoodsport has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate. Summer afternoons average 76° in July; winter nights fall to about 35° in February. About 92 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 4 inches of snow.
On November 14 Hoodsport normally reaches 50° and falls to 39°. The record high is 65°, in 1995; the record low 25°, in 2014. The most rain on this date, 3.23 in, fell in 1975.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1973 at Cushman Powerhouse #2, 3 miles south-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
