The Bayonne 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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80° on Nov. 15, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1843. Next is 77° in 1973.
Bayonne’s center stands about 12 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 290 ft, a difference of 290 ft: rolling country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Stony Hill, about 650 ft, 12 miles northwest.
The section below crosses 11 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 31×. 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, siltstone. Age: Early Jurassic to Late Jurassic, 145 to 202 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sandstone-mudstone, siltstone-mudstone. Age: Early Jurassic to Late Jurassic, 145 to 202 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Plutonic. Age: Early Jurassic, 175 to 202 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Siltstone, shale. Age: Early Jurassic to Late Jurassic, 145 to 202 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 0.9 mi of the line.
Basalt. Age: Early Jurassic, 175 to 202 million years old. About 0.9 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 5 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.
Rain that falls on Bayonne runs straight into New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Bayonne; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Bayonne has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in July; winter nights fall to about 26° in January. A normal year brings about 32 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 47 inches of water.
On November 14 Bayonne normally reaches 56° and falls to 39°. The record high is 73°, in 1993; the record low 18°, in 1905. The most rain on this date, 1.81 in, fell in 1871.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1843 from the Newark Area threaded record (Newark Liberty International Airport, 3 miles west-northwest). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
