The Fayetteville 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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73° on Nov. 15, 1956, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1902. Next is 73° in 2012.
Fayetteville’s center stands about 560 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 410 ft to 960 ft, a difference of 550 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Arab Hill, about 1,980 ft, 15 miles south-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Cobleskill Limestone (shale, limestone, dolostone), from the Silurian, 422 to 428 million years old.
The section below crosses 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 16×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Dolostone, shale. Age: Silurian, 422 to 428 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Middle Devonian, 384 to 394 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Silurian, 422 to 428 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Black-shale. Age: Middle Devonian, 388 to 394 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone, dolostone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 428 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 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. 1 smaller unit 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 Fayetteville reaches Lake Ontario by way of Bishop Brook, Limestone Creek, Chittenango Creek, the Oneida and the Oswego: about 75 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 Fayetteville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Fayetteville has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 16° in January. A normal year brings about 128 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 40 inches of water.
On November 14 Fayetteville normally reaches 49° and falls to 33°. The record high is 72°, in 1994; the record low 12°, in 1905. The most rain on this date, 0.95 in, fell in 1995.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1902 from the Syracuse Area threaded record (Syracuse Hancock International Airport, 8 miles northwest, 150 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
