The North East 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.
North East’s center stands about 20 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 10 ft to 340 ft, a difference of 330 ft: rolling country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Goat Hill, about 500 ft, 12 miles northwest.
The section below crosses 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 44×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Gneiss, quartz-diorite, granodiorite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Middle Cambrian, 500 to 600 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Mica-schist. Age: Paleozoic, 252 to 542 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Muscovite-schist. Age: Proterozoic, 542 to 2,500 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.9 mi of the line.
Greenstone, schist, amphibolite. Age: Proterozoic, 542 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. 1 smaller unit 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 North East reaches Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the North East: about 1 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of North East; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
North East 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 North East 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, 11 miles east-northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
