The Maltby 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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5° on Nov. 15, 1955, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1929. Next is 18° in 1978.
Maltby’s center stands about 460 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 50 ft to 620 ft, a difference of 570 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Bald Hill, about 730 ft, 4 miles 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 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 14×. 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 11 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Andesite. Age: Middle Eocene to Late Eocene, 34 to 48 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.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 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.
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 Maltby reaches Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean by way of Daniels Creek, Cottage Lake Creek, Bear Creek and the Sammamish: about 40 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Washington.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Maltby; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Maltby has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate. Summer afternoons average 75° in August; winter nights fall to about 31° in December. About 51 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 3 inches of snow.
On November 14 Maltby normally reaches 49° and falls to 36°. The record high is 67°, in 1995; the record low 9°, in 1955. The most rain on this date, 1.92 in, fell in 2001.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1929 at Monroe, 6 miles east-northeast, 340 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
