The Cazenovia 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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72° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1911. Next is 69° in 1956.
Cazenovia’s center stands about 1,210 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 800 ft to 1,690 ft, a difference of 890 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Fellows Hill, about 2,070 ft, 12 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Skaneateles Formation (shale), from the Middle Devonian, 384 to 394 million years old.
The section below crosses 11 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. Age: Middle Devonian, 384 to 394 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Middle Devonian, 384 to 388 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.
Limestone. Age: Middle Devonian, 384 to 394 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Silurian, 422 to 428 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Black-shale. Age: Middle Devonian, 388 to 394 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. 5 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 Cazenovia reaches Lake Ontario by way of Chittenango Creek, the Oneida and the Oswego: about 90 river miles. From the lake it goes down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
Lake on the way: Oneida Lake.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Cazenovia; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Cazenovia has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 77° in July; winter nights fall to about 11° in January. About 48 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Cazenovia normally reaches 45° and falls to 29°. The record high is 64°, in 1989; the record low 4°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.09 in, fell in 1968.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1911 at Morrisville 6 SW, 9 miles southeast, 470 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
