The Toronto 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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82° on Nov. 11, 1989, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 82° in 1999.
Toronto’s center stands about 960 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 900 ft to 1,040 ft, a difference of 140 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Tipperary Hill, about 1,140 ft, 8 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Douglas Group (shale, sandstone), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 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, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Sand, silt, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 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.
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 Toronto reaches the Gulf of America by way of Toronto Lake, the Verdigris, the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 1,270 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Oologah Lake, Murray Lake, Ozark Lake and Toronto Lake.
600 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Toronto; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Toronto has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 20° in January. A normal year brings about 9 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 42 inches of water.
On November 14 Toronto normally reaches 58° and falls to 34°. The record high is 79°, in 1962; the record low 9°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.76 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Yates Center, 13 miles east-northeast, 150 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
