The Cherry Hill 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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14° on Nov. 17, 1996, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1991. Next is 20° in 1995.
Cherry Hill’s center stands about 60 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 100 ft, a difference of 100 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Georges Hill, about 250 ft, 11 miles west-northwest.
The section below crosses 15 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 52×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Mica-schist. Age: Paleozoic, 252 to 542 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Early Miocene, 16 to 23 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Middle Miocene, 12 to 14 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 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.
Sand, clay. Age: Late Cretaceous, 72 to 84 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. 9 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 Cherry Hill reaches Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the North Branch Cooper, the Cooper and the Delaware: about 80 river miles.
70 miles of the trip are on the Delaware.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Cherry Hill; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Cherry Hill has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in July; winter nights fall to about 25° in January. About 48 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Cherry Hill normally reaches 55° and falls to 37°. The record high is 78°, in 1993; the record low 20°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.91 in, fell in 2006.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1991 at Pennsauken 1 N, 2 miles north-northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
