The West Ocean City 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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5.53 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1916. The next wettest, 3.36 inches, fell in 1979.
West Ocean City’s center stands about 9 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 70 ft, a difference of 70 ft: gently rolling country. Open water lies within three miles.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Quaternary Deposits Undivided (fine-detrital, coarse-detrital), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 13 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.
Rain that falls on West Ocean City runs straight into the Atlantic Ocean.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of West Ocean City; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
West Ocean City has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. A normal year brings about 10 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 47 inches of water.
On November 14 West Ocean City normally reaches 62° and falls to 41°. The record high is 78°, in 1955; the record low 18°, in 1920. The most rain on this date, 1.57 in, fell in 1997.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1916 at Snow Hill 4 N, 16 miles west-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
