The Barclay 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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14° on Nov. 17, 1996, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1991. Next is 20° in 1995.
Barclay’s center stands about 80 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 20 ft to 130 ft, a difference of 110 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Georges Hill, about 250 ft, 13 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Englishtown Formation (sand, clay), from the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 84 million years old.
The section below crosses 14 rock units mapped at the surface.
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.
Sand. Age: Middle Miocene, 12 to 14 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Early Miocene, 16 to 23 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Late Cretaceous, 72 to 84 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Late Cretaceous, 94 to 100 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Cretaceous, 72 to 84 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Clay, silt. Age: Late Cretaceous, 72 to 84 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 8 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 Barclay reaches Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the North Branch Cooper, the Cooper and the Delaware: about 75 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Barclay; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Barclay has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in July; winter nights fall to about 25° in January. About 48 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Barclay normally reaches 55° and falls to 37°. The record high is 78°, in 1993; the record low 20°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.91 in, fell in 2006.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1991 at Pennsauken 1 N, 5 miles north-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
