The Middletown 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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75° on Nov. 16, 1928, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1880. Next is 75° in 1993.
Middletown’s center stands about 560 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 380 ft to 970 ft, a difference of 590 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Wurtsboro Hills, about 1,300 ft, 11 miles north-northwest.
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.
Shale. Age: Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Graywacke, shale. Age: Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Middle Devonian to Late Devonian, 359 to 394 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Biotite-gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Silurian, 422 to 428 million years old. About 0.9 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Early Devonian to Middle Devonian, 388 to 410 million years old. About 0.8 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 Middletown reaches New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Monhagen Brook and the Hudson: about 150 river miles.
90 miles of the trip are on the Hudson.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Middletown; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Middletown has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 16° in January. A normal year brings about 43 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 47 inches of water.
On November 14 Middletown normally reaches 50° and falls to 30°. The record high is 71°, in 1989; the record low 12°, in 1905. The most rain on this date, 1.40 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1880 at Port Jervis, 14 miles west-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
