The Bohemia 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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Bohemia’s center stands about 1,280 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,080 ft to 1,460 ft, a difference of 380 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Adventure Mountain, about 1,480 ft, 8 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Jacobsville Sandstone, from the Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 25×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone, arkose. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Basalt. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1.1 to 1.1 billion years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Conglomerate, sandstone. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion 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.
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 Bohemia reaches Lake Superior by way of the East Branch Firesteel and the Firesteel: about 35 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Bohemia; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
