The North Hanover 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 1891. Next is 77° in 2020.
North Hanover’s center stands about 130 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 70 ft to 230 ft, a difference of 160 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Disbrows Hill, about 320 ft, 13 miles north-northeast.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 63×. 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: Early Paleocene, 62 to 66 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Early Miocene, 16 to 23 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 72 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 72 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Middle Miocene, 12 to 14 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.
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 North Hanover reaches Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Blacks Creek and the Delaware: about 110 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of North Hanover; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
North Hanover has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in July; winter nights fall to about 21° in January. A normal year brings about 24 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 48 inches of water.
On November 14 North Hanover normally reaches 56° and falls to 33°. The record high is 72°, in 1959; the record low 15°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.89 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1891 at Hightstown 2 W, 12 miles north. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
