The Huntertown 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° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1989. Next is 12° in 1997.
Huntertown’s center stands about 840 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 820 ft to 920 ft, a difference of 100 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Muscatatuck Group (limestone, dolostone), from the Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 63×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Limestone, dolostone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Black-shale. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 10 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.
Huntertown straddles the St. Lawrence Divide. Rain on the south side runs to the Gulf of America; most of the rest goes to Lake Erie.
From the center of town, a raindrop reaches Lake Erie by way of Willow Creek, Cedar Creek, the Saint Joseph and the Maumee: about 170 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic. One that lands on the south side reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Eel, the Wabash, Big Bayou, the Wabash River Old Channel, the Old Channel Wabash, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,540 river miles.
140 miles of the trip are on the Maumee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Huntertown; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Huntertown has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 81° in July; winter nights fall to about 17° in January. A normal year brings about 36 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 40 inches of water.
On November 14 Huntertown normally reaches 48° and falls to 31°. The record high is 64°, in 2009; the record low 13°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 0.72 in, fell in 2024.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1989 at Garrett 1 S, 8 miles north-northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
