The Scarsdale 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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17° on Nov. 15, 1996, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1946. Next is 18° in 1967.
Scarsdale’s center stands about 270 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 110 ft to 450 ft, a difference of 340 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Nonames Hill, about 810 ft, 14 miles north-northeast.
The section below crosses 12 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 29×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Gneiss. Age: Precambrian to Mesoproterozoic. About 2 mi of the line.
Amphibolite, pelitic-schist. Age: Cambrian to Early Ordovician, 471 to 542 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Hornblende-gneiss. Age: Cambrian to Early Ordovician, 471 to 542 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Mudstone, sandstone, arkose. Age: Late Triassic, 202 to 237 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Pelitic-schist, gneiss, amphibolite. Age: Early Cambrian to Middle Ordovician, 459 to 542 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Basalt. Age: Early Jurassic, 175 to 202 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 6 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 Scarsdale reaches Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Sheldrake and the Mamaroneck: about 6 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Scarsdale; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Scarsdale has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 23° in January. About 48 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Scarsdale normally reaches 53° and falls to 37°. The record high is 71°, in 1993; the record low 20°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.92 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1946 at Westchester Co Airport, 6 miles northeast, 100 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
