The Remsen 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. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1909. Next is 69° in 1948.
Remsen’s center stands about 1,190 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 880 ft to 1,600 ft, a difference of 720 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Forty Mountain, about 1,880 ft, 11 miles northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Trenton Group (limestone), from the Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 million years old.
The section below crosses 6 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.
Black-shale. Age: Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Metasedimentary, gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone. Age: Late Ordovician, 445 to 459 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 million 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.
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.
Remsen straddles the St. Lawrence Divide. Rain on the southwest side runs to New York Harbor 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 Baker Brook and the Black River: about 100 river miles. From the lake it goes down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic. One that lands on the southwest side reaches New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Mud Brook, Cincinnati Creek, West Canada Creek, the Mohawk and the Hudson: about 280 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Remsen; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Remsen has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 79° in July; winter nights fall to about 10° in January. About 51 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1909 at Trenton Falls, 4 miles south-southeast, 390 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
