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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80° on Nov. 15, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1894. Next is 77° in 1973.
Newark’s center stands about 130 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 60 ft to 360 ft, a difference of 300 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Egg Hill, about 450 ft, 8 miles west-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Port Deposit Granodiorite, from the Paleozoic, 252 to 542 million years old.
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 33×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Mica-schist. Age: Paleozoic, 252 to 542 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Sand, clay, silt. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Schist, gneiss. Age: Paleozoic, 252 to 542 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. 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 Newark reaches Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Christina and the Delaware: about 60 river miles.
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 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 25° in January. About 47 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Newark normally reaches 57° and falls to 36°. The record high is 75°, in 1955; the record low 19°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 2.53 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1894 at Newark Ag Farm, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
