The Branchville 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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75° on Nov. 16, 1928, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1880. Next is 75° in 1993.
Branchville’s center stands about 560 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 470 ft to 1,310 ft, a difference of 840 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Kittatinny Mountain, about 1,780 ft, 13 miles north-northeast.
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 17×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Graywacke, siltstone. Age: Middle Ordovician to Late Ordovician, 445 to 471 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Cambrian to Early Ordovician, 471 to 497 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone. Age: Early Devonian to Middle Devonian, 384 to 422 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Limestone, chert. Age: Middle Devonian, 384 to 394 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Slate, shale. Age: Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Siltstone, sandstone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 428 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. 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 Branchville reaches Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Culvers Creek, Paulins Kill and the Delaware: about 210 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Branchville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Branchville has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 16° in January. A normal year brings about 43 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 47 inches of water.
On November 14 Branchville normally reaches 50° and falls to 30°. The record high is 71°, in 1989; the record low 12°, in 1905. The most rain on this date, 1.40 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1880 at Port Jervis, 17 miles north. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
