The Bergen 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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8° on Nov. 16, 1933, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1871. Next is 10° in 1905.
Bergen’s center stands about 610 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 570 ft to 710 ft, a difference of 140 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Skunk Hill, about 1,220 ft, 15 miles south-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Camillus, Syracuse, and Vernon Formations (shale), from the Silurian, 422 to 428 million years old.
The section below crosses 9 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 32×. 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. Age: Silurian, 422 to 428 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Middle Devonian, 384 to 394 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Ordovician, 445 to 459 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 425 to 434 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Silurian, 428 to 445 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Early Devonian to Middle Devonian, 388 to 410 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. 3 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 Bergen reaches Lake Ontario by way of Black Creek and the Genesee: about 40 river miles. From the lake it goes down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Bergen; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Bergen has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in January. A normal year brings about 102 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 35 inches of water.
On November 14 Bergen normally reaches 50° and falls to 34°. The record high is 72°, in 1994; the record low 10°, in 1905. The most rain on this date, 1.13 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1871 from the Rochester Area threaded record (Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport, 14 miles east). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
