The Burlington 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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18° on Nov. 14, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1993. Next is 20° in 1995.
Burlington’s center stands about 8 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 120 ft, a difference of 120 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Holly, about 230 ft, 6 miles southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Magothy Formation (sand), from the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 87 million years old.
The section below crosses 18 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 61×. 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, clay. Age: Late Cretaceous, 72 to 84 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Precambrian. About 2 mi of the line.
Arkose. Age: Triassic, 202 to 252 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Mica-schist. Age: Paleozoic, 252 to 542 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 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. 12 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 Burlington reaches Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Delaware: about 90 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Burlington; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Burlington has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 85° in July; winter nights fall to about 23° in January. A normal year brings about 25 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 46 inches of water.
On November 14 Burlington normally reaches 54° and falls to 34°. The record high is 66°, in 2005; the record low 18°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.85 in, fell in 2008.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1993 at Philadelphia/Mt. Holly Wfo, 5 miles south-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
