The West Stewartstown 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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−8° on Nov. 17, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1960. Next is −4° in 2018.
West Stewartstown’s center stands about 1,170 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,010 ft to 1,870 ft, a difference of 860 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Bunnell Mountain, about 3,720 ft, 14 miles south.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Ironbound Mountain Formation (slate, phyllite, schist), from the Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old.
The section below crosses 9 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 10×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Metagraywacke, slate. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Metasandstone, slate. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Granofels, pelitic-schist. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Slate, phyllite, schist. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Metasandstone, slate, phyllite. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Metasandstone. Age: Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 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. 3 smaller units 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 West Stewartstown reaches Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Connecticut: about 370 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of West Stewartstown; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
West Stewartstown has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 77° in July; winter nights fall to about 0° in January. A normal year brings about 81 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 41 inches of water.
On November 14 West Stewartstown normally reaches 42° and falls to 22°. The record high is 64°, in 1989; the record low −6°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.60 in, fell in 1975.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1960 at Colebrook 3 SW, 9 miles south. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
