The Byram 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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76° on Nov. 16, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 74° in 1927.
Byram’s center stands about 1,110 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 590 ft to 1,180 ft, a difference of 590 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Rattlesnake Mountain, about 1,470 ft, 14 miles north-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Hornblende Syenite, from the Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old.
The section below crosses 13 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 25×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Dolostone. Age: Early Cambrian to Middle Cambrian, 497 to 542 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Syenite. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1.1 to 1.1 billion years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Cambrian to Early Ordovician, 471 to 497 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Conglomerate. Age: Silurian, 428 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. 7 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 Byram reaches Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Lubbers Run, the Musconetcong and the Delaware: about 190 river miles.
140 miles of the trip are on the Delaware.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Byram; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Byram has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in January. About 52 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Byram normally reaches 52° and falls to 32°. The record high is 71°, in 1902; the record low 10°, in 1905. The most rain on this date, 1.37 in, fell in 1935.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Charlotteburg Reservoir, 16 miles east-northeast, 330 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
