The Lake Marcel-Stillwater 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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70° on Nov. 14, 1995, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1894. Next is 66° in 1905.
Lake Marcel-Stillwater’s center stands about 300 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 40 ft to 670 ft, a difference of 630 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Lee, about 4,300 ft, 15 miles east.
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 6 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.
Andesite. Age: Middle Eocene to Late Eocene, 34 to 48 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
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 5 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Silt, sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Argillite, graywacke. Age: Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, 100 to 164 million years old. About 0.7 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 Lake Marcel-Stillwater reaches Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean by way of Essency Creek, Harris Creek, the Snoqualmie and the Snohomish: about 45 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Lake Marcel-Stillwater; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lake Marcel-Stillwater has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate. Summer afternoons average 77° in August; winter nights fall to about 37° in January. About 38 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 4 inches of snow.
On November 14 Lake Marcel-Stillwater normally reaches 52° and falls to 41°. The record high is 70°, in 1995; the record low 15°, in 1955. The most rain on this date, 2.27 in, fell in 1906.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1894 from the Seattle City Area threaded record (Seattle Sand Point Wfo, 16 miles west, 240 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
