The Burdett 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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14° on Nov. 17, 1959, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1938. Next is 14° in 2019.
Burdett’s center stands about 1,020 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 440 ft to 1,790 ft, a difference of 1,350 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Connecticut Hill, about 2,140 ft, 9 miles east-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Sonyea Group (shale, siltstone), 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 12×. 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. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale. 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 Burdett reaches Lake Ontario by way of Hector Falls Creek, the Seneca and the Oswego: about 120 river miles. From the lake it goes down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
Lakes on the way: Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Burdett; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Burdett has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 16° in January. About 32 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Burdett normally reaches 50° and falls to 30°. The record high is 69°, in 1945; the record low 17°, in 2014. The most rain on this date, 0.40 in, fell in 2011.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1938 at Elmira Corning Regional Airport, 18 miles south. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
