The Bloomingburg 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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75° on Nov. 16, 1928, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1880. Next is 75° in 1993.
Bloomingburg’s center stands about 520 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 440 ft to 1,310 ft, a difference of 870 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is High Point, about 2,250 ft, 12 miles north-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Austin Glen Formation (graywacke, shale), from the Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 million years old.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 13×. 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, shale. Age: Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 million years old. About 23 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Silurian, 422 to 428 million years old. About 0.7 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 Bloomingburg reaches New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Shawangunk Kill and the Hudson: about 140 river miles.
90 miles of the trip are on the Hudson.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Bloomingburg; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Bloomingburg has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 16° in January. A normal year brings about 43 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 47 inches of water.
On November 14 Bloomingburg normally reaches 50° and falls to 30°. The record high is 71°, in 1989; the record low 12°, in 1905. The most rain on this date, 1.40 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1880 at Port Jervis, 17 miles southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
