The Almond 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. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 72° in 2012.
Almond’s center stands about 1,340 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,260 ft to 2,150 ft, a difference of 890 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Jackson Hill, about 2,440 ft, 13 miles southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Machias Formation (shale, siltstone, sandstone), from the Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 15×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Shale, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 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 Almond reaches Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Karr Valley Creek, Canacadea Creek, the Tioga, the Chemung and the Susquehanna: about 390 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Aldred.
250 miles of the trip are on the Susquehanna.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Almond; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Almond has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 81° in July; winter nights fall to about 12° in January. A normal year brings about 82 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 38 inches of water.
On November 14 Almond normally reaches 47° and falls to 27°. The record high is 67°, in 1994; the record low 7°, in 1939. The most rain on this date, 1.91 in, fell in 1995.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Alfred, 3 miles south-southwest, 580 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
