The Pendleton 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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8° on Nov. 15, 1933, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1871. Next is 9° in 1967.
Pendleton’s center stands about 590 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 570 ft to 640 ft, a difference of 70 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is East Hill, about 800 ft, 11 miles southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Camillus, Syracuse, and Vernon Formations (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 43×. 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: Silurian, 422 to 428 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 425 to 434 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Ordovician, 445 to 459 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Early Devonian to Middle Devonian, 388 to 410 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Silurian, 428 to 445 million years old. About 0.9 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Silurian, 434 to 445 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. 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 Pendleton reaches Lake Ontario by way of Eighteenmile Creek: about 20 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 Pendleton; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Pendleton has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in January. A normal year brings about 95 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 41 inches of water.
On November 14 Pendleton normally reaches 48° and falls to 35°. The record high is 69°, in 1994; the record low 15°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.93 in, fell in 1871.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1871 from the Buffalo Area threaded record (Buffalo Niagara International Airpor, 10 miles south, 120 ft higher). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
