The Cedar Glen West 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.
79° on Nov. 16, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1874. Next is 78° in 1973.
Cedar Glen West’s center stands about 130 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 50 ft to 150 ft, a difference of 100 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Cohansey Formation (sand), from the Middle Miocene, 12 to 14 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 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 12 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Early Miocene, 16 to 23 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Middle Paleocene, 59 to 62 million years old. About 0.6 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
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 Cedar Glen West reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Ridgeway Branch, Union Branch and the Toms: about 16 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Cedar Glen West; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Cedar Glen West has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in July; winter nights fall to about 23° in January. About 49 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Cedar Glen West normally reaches 57° and falls to 36°. The record high is 76°, in 1993; the record low 20°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.85 in, fell in 2008.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1874 at Freehold-Marlboro, 19 miles north. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.