The Pulteney 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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Pulteney’s center stands about 1,060 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 710 ft to 1,690 ft, a difference of 980 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is West Hill, about 2,140 ft, 9 miles west.
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 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: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Siltstone, shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 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.
Pulteney straddles the St. Lawrence Divide. Rain on the west side runs to Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean; most of the rest goes to Lake Ontario.
From the center of town, a raindrop reaches Lake Ontario by way of West Branch Keuka Lake, the Keuka Lake Outlet, the Seneca and the Oswego: about 120 river miles. From the lake it goes down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic. One that lands on the west side reaches Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Waldo Creek, Fivemile Creek, the Cohocton, the Chemung and the Susquehanna: about 370 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Seneca Lake, Cayuga Lake and West Branch Keuka Lake.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Pulteney; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
