The Butler 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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78° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1922. Next is 77° in 1928.
Butler’s center stands about 480 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 390 ft to 560 ft, a difference of 170 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Lockport Group (dolostone), from the Silurian, 425 to 428 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 58×. 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 11 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 425 to 428 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Silurian, 428 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.
Shale. Age: Late Ordovician to Silurian, 434 to 459 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 Butler reaches Lake Ontario by way of Wolcott Creek: about 14 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 Butler; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Butler has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 79° in July; winter nights fall to about 16° in January. A normal year brings about 105 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 40 inches of water.
On November 14 Butler normally reaches 48° and falls to 32°. The record high is 70°, in 1994; the record low 12°, in 1996. The most rain on this date, 0.85 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1922 at Sodus 1 W, 17 miles west-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
