The Glasgow 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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80° on Nov. 15, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1894. Next is 78° in 1973.
Glasgow’s center stands about 80 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 50 ft to 330 ft, a difference of 280 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Egg Hill, about 450 ft, 9 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Potomac Formation (sand, clay, silt), from the Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old.
The section below crosses 8 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 47×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sand, clay, silt. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Gneiss, quartz-diorite, granodiorite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Middle Cambrian, 500 to 600 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Gravel, sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Silt, sand. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 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. 2 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 Glasgow reaches Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Muddy Run, the Christina and the Delaware: about 60 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Glasgow; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Glasgow has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in July; winter nights fall to about 26° in January. A normal year brings about 20 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 45 inches of water.
On November 14 Glasgow normally reaches 56° and falls to 38°. The record high is 76°, in 1955; the record low 20°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 2.42 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1894 from the Wilmington Area threaded record (Wilmington Airport, 9 miles east-northeast). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
