The Chester 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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−10° on Nov. 15, 1933, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1913. Next is −10° in 1959.
Chester’s center stands about 1,270 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,230 ft to 1,330 ft, a difference of 100 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Redner Hill, about 1,470 ft, 5 miles south-southwest.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 43×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 21 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Black-shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 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.
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 Chester reaches Lake Huron by way of the North Branch Au Sable and the Au Sable: about 120 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
95 miles of the trip are on the Au Sable.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Chester; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Chester has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about 6° in February. A normal year brings about 84 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 32 inches of water.
On November 14 Chester normally reaches 43° and falls to 26°. The record high is 63°, in 1999; the record low 7°, in 1996. The most rain on this date, 0.68 in, fell in 1992.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1913 at Vanderbilt 11 ENE, 17 miles north-northeast, 360 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
