The Rosedale 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. 15, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1950. Next is 80° in 1973.
Rosedale’s center stands about 40 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 280 ft, a difference of 280 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Lawyers Hill, about 300 ft, 13 miles west-southwest.
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 32×. 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. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Precambrian. About 3 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Gabbro. Age: Proterozoic to Paleozoic, 252 to 2,500 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Marble. Age: Proterozoic, 542 to 2,500 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Biotite-schist. Age: Proterozoic, 542 to 2,500 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. 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 Rosedale reaches Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Redhouse Creek and the Back: about 11 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Rosedale; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Rosedale has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. About 44 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Rosedale normally reaches 58° and falls to 43°. The record high is 78°, in 1989; the record low 21°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 2.46 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1950 from the Baltimore Downtown Area threaded record (Maryland Science Center, 6 miles west-southwest). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
