The Clinton 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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70° on Nov. 11, 2002, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1906. Next is 70° in 2012.
Clinton’s center stands about 1,220 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,060 ft to 1,360 ft, a difference of 300 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Ellenburg Mountain, about 2,710 ft, 12 miles south-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Potsdam Sandstone, from the Cambrian, 487 to 497 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 8×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 497 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Charnockite, gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 0.8 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.
Clinton has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 79° in July; winter nights fall to about 9° in January. About 43 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Clinton normally reaches 45° and falls to 28°. The record high is 64°, in 2011; the record low 3°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.87 in, fell in 1937.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1906 at Dannemora, 18 miles south-southeast, 120 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
