The Galloway 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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80° on Nov. 15, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1943. Next is 77° in 1955.
Galloway’s center stands about 50 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 90 ft, a difference of 90 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 2 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 16 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Middle Miocene, 12 to 14 million years old. About 3 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 Galloway reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Mattix Run, Nacote Creek and the Mullica: about 11 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Galloway; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Galloway has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in July; winter nights fall to about 25° in January. A normal year brings about 17 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 46 inches of water.
On November 14 Galloway normally reaches 58° and falls to 37°. The record high is 75°, in 1989; the record low 15°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 2.85 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1943 from the Atlantic City Area threaded record (Atlantic City International Airport, 6 miles west-southwest). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
