The Newark 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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4.80 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1904. The next wettest, 4.09 inches, fell in 1987.
Newark’s center stands about 310 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 230 ft to 410 ft, a difference of 180 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Uncle Joe Warren Mountain, about 910 ft, 10 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Gravel, from the Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 million years old.
The section below crosses 10 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 28×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale, limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone, dolostone. Age: Early Devonian to Carboniferous, 324 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Age: Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 4 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 Newark reaches the Gulf of America by way of Mud Creek, the White River and the Mississippi: about 890 river miles.
620 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Newark; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Newark has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 28° in January. About 51 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 2 inches of snow.
On November 14 Newark normally reaches 61° and falls to 39°. The record high is 82°, in 1955; the record low 17°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 2.27 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1904 at Batesville L&D 1, 12 miles west-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
