The Haines Falls 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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Haines Falls’s center stands about 2,000 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,230 ft to 3,300 ft, a difference of 2,070 ft: mountain country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Hunter Mountain, about 4,040 ft, 7 miles west-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Oneonta Formation (shale), from the Middle Devonian to Late Devonian, 359 to 394 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 5×. 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, conglomerate, shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Middle Devonian to Late Devonian, 359 to 394 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Middle Devonian, 384 to 394 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Middle Devonian, 384 to 388 million 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.
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 Haines Falls reaches New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Kaaterskill Creek, Catskill Creek and the Hudson: about 140 river miles.
110 miles of the trip are on the Hudson.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Haines Falls; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
