The Goshen 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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Goshen’s center stands about 1,460 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 830 ft to 1,670 ft, a difference of 840 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Judges Hill, about 2,300 ft, 13 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Goshen Formation (schist), from the Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old.
The section below crosses 12 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 10×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Schist. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Schist. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Arkose, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Late Triassic, 202 to 237 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Phyllite, schist. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Granofels, schist. Age: Early Ordovician to Middle Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Quartzite, mica-schist. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 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. 6 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 Goshen reaches Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Dead Branch, the Westfield and the Connecticut: about 120 river miles.
75 miles of the trip are on the Connecticut.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Goshen; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
