The Gananda 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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83° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 78° in 2022.
Gananda’s center stands about 510 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 470 ft to 610 ft, a difference of 140 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Hopper Hills, about 1,160 ft, 14 miles south-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Vernon Formation (shale), from the Silurian, 422 to 428 million 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 31×. 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. Age: Silurian, 425 to 428 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Silurian, 422 to 428 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Silurian, 422 to 428 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 428 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Ordovician to Silurian, 434 to 459 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Silurian, 428 to 445 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. 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.
A raindrop that lands in Gananda reaches Lake Ontario by way of Black Creek, Red Creek, Ganargua Creek, the Erie Canal, the Clyde, the Seneca and the Oswego: about 120 river miles. From the lake it goes down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Gananda; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Gananda has a cold desert climate. Summer afternoons average 81° in July; winter nights fall to about 16° in January. Barely 0.0 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Victor 2 NW, 10 miles south-southwest, 140 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
