The Bridgeville 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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74° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1898. Next is 70° in 1956.
Bridgeville’s center stands about 1,390 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,080 ft to 1,640 ft, a difference of 560 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Thunder Hill, about 2,240 ft, 14 miles north.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Lower Walton Formation (sandstone, conglomerate, shale), from the Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old.
The section below crosses 8 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.
Shale, sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate, shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Middle Devonian to Late Devonian, 359 to 394 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Graywacke, shale. Age: Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Middle Devonian, 384 to 394 million years old. About 2 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. 2 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 Bridgeville reaches Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Neversink, Basher Kill and the Delaware: about 250 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Bridgeville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Bridgeville has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 79° in July; winter nights fall to about 13° in January. A normal year brings about 70 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 53 inches of water.
On November 14 Bridgeville normally reaches 47° and falls to 29°. The record high is 66°, in 1964; the record low 6°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.60 in, fell in 1911.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1898 at Liberty 1 NE, 13 miles north-northwest, 190 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
