The Freedom 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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3.14 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1896. The next wettest, 2.23 inches, fell in 1965.
Freedom’s center stands about 1,810 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,660 ft to 2,150 ft, a difference of 490 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Bush Hill, about 2,210 ft, 7 miles south.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Machias Formation (shale, siltstone, sandstone), from the Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 20×. 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, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 24 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 Freedom reaches Lake Erie by way of Elton Creek and Cattaraugus Creek: about 65 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
50 miles of the trip are on Cattaraugus Creek.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Freedom; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Freedom has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 79° in July; winter nights fall to about 13° in January. A normal year brings about 109 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 45 inches of water.
On November 14 Freedom normally reaches 47° and falls to 29°. The record high is 66°, in 1989; the record low −4°, in 1905. The most rain on this date, 1.04 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1896 at Franklinville, 13 miles south-southwest, 220 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
