The Niverville 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. 16, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1942. Next is 72° in 2020.
Niverville’s center stands about 320 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 210 ft to 540 ft, a difference of 330 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Perry Peak, about 2,080 ft, 14 miles east.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Nassau Formation (shale), from the Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian, 521 to 1,000 million years old.
The section below crosses 10 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 13×. 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: Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian, 521 to 1,000 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Graywacke, shale. Age: Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Slate, phyllite, schist. Age: Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Phyllite. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Cambrian to Ordovician, 445 to 542 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. 4 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 Niverville reaches New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Valatie Kill, Kinderhook Creek and the Hudson: about 140 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Niverville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Niverville has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about 13° in January. A normal year brings about 46 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 42 inches of water.
On November 14 Niverville normally reaches 48° and falls to 30°. The record high is 66°, in 1964; the record low 8°, in 1971. The most rain on this date, 1.17 in, fell in 1955.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1942 at Alcove Dam, 14 miles west, 310 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
