The Goshen 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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78° on Nov. 15, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1871. Next is 74° in 1949.
Goshen’s center stands about 20 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 50 ft, a difference of 50 ft: nearly flat ground. Open water lies within three miles.
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 12 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Late Pliocene, 2.6 to 3.6 million years old. About 8 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 Goshen reaches Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Crow Creek and Dennis Creek: about 4 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Goshen; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Goshen has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 29° in January. A normal year brings about 15 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 44 inches of water.
On November 14 Goshen normally reaches 57° and falls to 41°. The record high is 74°, in 1993; the record low 20°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.64 in, fell in 1995.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1871 at Cape May 2 NW, 14 miles south-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
