The William Paterson University of New Jersey 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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13° on Nov. 16, 1996, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1892. Next is 14° in 1933.
William Paterson University of New Jersey’s center stands about 500 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 50 ft to 750 ft, a difference of 700 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Cobb Hill, about 1,210 ft, 14 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Preakness Basalt, from the Early Jurassic, 175 to 202 million years old.
The section below crosses 13 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 17×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone, siltstone. Age: Early Jurassic to Late Jurassic, 145 to 202 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Basalt. Age: Early Jurassic, 175 to 202 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Conglomerate-sandstone. Age: Early Jurassic to Late Jurassic, 145 to 202 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Gneiss. 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 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone-mudstone, siltstone-mudstone. Age: Early Jurassic to Late Jurassic, 145 to 202 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. 7 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 William Paterson University of New Jersey reaches New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Molly Ann Brook and the Passaic: about 25 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of William Paterson University of New Jersey; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
William Paterson University of New Jersey has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 21° in January. About 49 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 William Paterson University of New Jersey normally reaches 53° and falls to 33°. The record high is 80°, in 1931; the record low 19°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 2.10 in, fell in 1937.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1892 at Boonton 1 SE, 11 miles west-southwest, 220 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
