The Saratoga 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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78° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 76° in 1931.
Saratoga’s center stands about 1,050 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,000 ft to 1,120 ft, a difference of 120 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Louisville Limestone through Brassfield Limestone, from the Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. 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. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 24 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.
A raindrop that lands in Saratoga reaches the Gulf of America by way of Miller Creek, the Mississinewa, the Wabash, Big Bayou, the Wabash River Old Channel, the Old Channel Wabash, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,570 river miles.
Lake on the way: Mississinewa Lake.
970 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Saratoga; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Saratoga has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 18° in January. A normal year brings about 21 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 41 inches of water.
On November 14 Saratoga normally reaches 52° and falls to 33°. The record high is 76°, in 1931; the record low 9°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 3.01 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Farmland 5 NNW, 12 miles west. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
