The Rouses Point 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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1° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1945. Next is 10° in 1986.
Rouses Point’s center stands about 100 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 90 ft to 280 ft, a difference of 190 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Cobblestone Hill, about 710 ft, 15 miles southwest.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 41×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 497 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 million years old. About 0.5 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.
A raindrop that lands in Rouses Point reaches the St. Lawrence River by way of Lake Champlain and the Richelieu: about 80 river miles. The St. Lawrence carries it on to the Atlantic.
Lake on the way: Lake Champlain.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Rouses Point; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Rouses Point has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 81° in July; winter nights fall to about 10° in January. About 31 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Rouses Point normally reaches 46° and falls to 29°. The record high is 64°, in 1959; the record low 11°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.88 in, fell in 2009.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1945 from the Plattsburgh Area threaded record (Plattsburgh International Airport, 25 miles south-southwest). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
