The Darien Downtown 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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17° on Nov. 15, 1996, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1946. Next is 18° in 1967.
Darien Downtown’s center stands about 60 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 260 ft, a difference of 260 ft: rolling country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Nonames Hill, about 810 ft, 14 miles northwest.
The section below crosses 9 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 29×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Schist, gneiss. Age: Early Ordovician to Middle Ordovician, 459 to 487 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Schist, granofels. Age: Early Ordovician to Middle Ordovician, 459 to 487 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Early Devonian to Middle Devonian, 393 to 419 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Schist, gneiss. Age: Early Ordovician to Middle Ordovician, 459 to 487 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Precambrian to Mesoproterozoic. About 1 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 3 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 Darien Downtown reaches Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Goodwives: about 3 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Darien Downtown; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Darien Downtown has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 23° in January. About 48 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Darien Downtown normally reaches 53° and falls to 37°. The record high is 71°, in 1993; the record low 20°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.92 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1946 at Westchester Co Airport, 12 miles west, 310 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
