The Ross Corner 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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76° on Nov. 16, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 74° in 1927.
Ross Corner’s center stands about 510 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 460 ft to 860 ft, a difference of 400 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Kittatinny Mountain, about 1,780 ft, 14 miles north.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Ramseyburg Member (graywacke, siltstone), from the Middle Ordovician to Late Ordovician, 445 to 471 million years old.
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 16×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Graywacke, siltstone. Age: Middle Ordovician to Late Ordovician, 445 to 471 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Cambrian to Early Ordovician, 471 to 497 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Silurian, 428 to 445 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Marble. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Slate, shale. Age: Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 million years old. About 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. 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 Ross Corner reaches Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Paulins Kill and the Delaware: about 210 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Ross Corner; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Ross Corner has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in January. About 52 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Ross Corner normally reaches 52° and falls to 32°. The record high is 71°, in 1902; the record low 10°, in 1905. The most rain on this date, 1.37 in, fell in 1935.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Charlotteburg Reservoir, 16 miles east-southeast, 270 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
