The North Ballston Spa 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. 14, 1989, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1955. Next is 72° in 2020.
North Ballston Spa’s center stands about 420 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 210 ft to 480 ft, a difference of 270 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Spruce Mountain, about 2,010 ft, 14 miles north.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Canajoharie Shale (black-shale), from the Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 million years old.
The section below crosses 9 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 11×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Black-shale. Age: Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 million years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Dolostone, limestone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Metasedimentary, migmatite. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Cambrian to Early Ordovician, 471 to 497 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 497 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Quartzite, schist. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 0.6 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 3 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 North Ballston Spa reaches New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Kayaderosseras Creek, Fish Creek and the Hudson: about 210 river miles.
Lake on the way: Saratoga Lake.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of North Ballston Spa; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
North Ballston Spa has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 14° in January. A normal year brings about 64 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 46 inches of water.
On November 14 North Ballston Spa normally reaches 49° and falls to 31°. The record high is 73°, in 1989; the record low 11°, in 1996. The most rain on this date, 1.04 in, fell in 1997.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1955 at Saratoga Springs 4 SW, 2 miles northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
