The Ware 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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75° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1942. Next is 67° in 2024.
Ware’s center stands about 430 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 410 ft to 1,140 ft, a difference of 730 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Hawes Hill, about 1,290 ft, 15 miles north-northeast.
The section below crosses 18 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 21×. 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: Late Ordovician, 449 to 453 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Gneiss, amphibolite. Age: Late Ordovician to Silurian, 440 to 454 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Granofels, schist. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Quartz-monzodiorite, ultramafic. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Granulite. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Late Ordovician to Silurian, 440 to 454 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. 12 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 Ware reaches Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of King Brook, the Ware, the Chicopee and the Connecticut: about 110 river miles.
80 miles of the trip are on the Connecticut.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Ware; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Ware has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 15° in January. A normal year brings about 48 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 48 inches of water.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1942 at Belchertown, 6 miles west-northwest, 120 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
