The Crown Point 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. 15, 1956, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1886. Next is 70° in 2002.
Crown Point’s center stands about 1,150 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 950 ft to 2,400 ft, a difference of 1,450 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Beck-horn, about 4,820 ft, 13 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Metanorthosite and anorthositic gneiss (gneiss, metaanorthosite), from the Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion 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 6×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Gneiss, metaanorthosite. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Paragneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone. Age: Late Ordovician, 445 to 459 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Charnockite, gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 1 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.
Crown Point straddles the St. Lawrence Divide. Rain on the east side runs to the St. Lawrence River; most of the rest goes to New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean.
From the center of town, a raindrop reaches New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Butternut Brook, Paradox Creek, the Schroon and the Hudson: about 300 river miles. One that lands on the east side reaches the St. Lawrence River by way of Cubtown Brook, Phelps Brook, Putnam Creek and the Richelieu: about 170 river miles. The St. Lawrence carries it on to the Atlantic.
Lake on the way: Schroon Lake.
240 miles of the trip are on the Hudson.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Crown Point; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Crown Point has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about 9° in January. A normal year brings about 59 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 39 inches of water.
On November 14 Crown Point normally reaches 45° and falls to 29°. The record high is 67°, in 1959; the record low 0°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.93 in, fell in 2021.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1886 at Cornwall, 19 miles east, 800 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
