The Howell 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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79° on Nov. 16, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1874. Next is 78° in 1973.
Howell’s center stands about 90 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 60 ft to 200 ft, a difference of 140 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Beacon Hill, about 430 ft, 14 miles north.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Lower Member of the Kirkwood Formation (clay, sand), from the Early Miocene, 16 to 23 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.
Clay, sand. Age: Early Miocene, 16 to 23 million years old. About 19 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Middle Miocene, 12 to 14 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Middle Paleocene, 59 to 62 million years old. About 0.1 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
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 Howell reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Timber Swamp Brook and the Manasquan: about 14 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Howell; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Howell 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 Howell 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, 10 miles north-northwest, 100 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
