The Elkton 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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80° on Nov. 15, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1894. Next is 77° in 1973.
Elkton’s center stands about 30 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 220 ft, a difference of 220 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Ararat, about 450 ft, 13 miles west.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Lowland Deposits (fine-detrital, coarse-detrital), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 6 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.
Sand, clay, silt. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Age: Paleozoic, 252 to 542 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Gravel, sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.7 mi of the line.
Gabbro. Age: Proterozoic to Paleozoic, 252 to 2,500 million years old. About 0.5 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 Elkton reaches Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Big Elk Creek and the Elk River: about 18 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Elkton; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Elkton has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 25° in January. About 47 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Elkton normally reaches 57° and falls to 36°. The record high is 75°, in 1955; the record low 19°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 2.53 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1894 at Newark Ag Farm, 6 miles northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
