The Schoharie 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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74° on Nov. 13, 2012, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1985. Next is 72° in 2002.
Schoharie’s center stands about 600 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 590 ft to 1,780 ft, a difference of 1,190 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is The Cobble, about 2,360 ft, 14 miles west-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Schenectady Formation (graywacke, sandstone, siltstone), from the Late Ordovician, 445 to 459 million years old.
The section below crosses 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 12×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Graywacke, sandstone, siltstone. Age: Late Ordovician, 445 to 459 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Middle Devonian, 384 to 394 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Black-shale. Age: Middle Devonian, 388 to 394 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Early Devonian to Middle Devonian, 388 to 410 million years old. About 0.6 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone, shale. Age: Silurian, 422 to 428 million years old. About 0.4 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 1 smaller unit 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 Schoharie reaches New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Schoharie Creek, the Mohawk and the Hudson: about 230 river miles.
160 miles of the trip are on the Hudson.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Schoharie; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Schoharie has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 81° in July; winter nights fall to about 11° in January. About 45 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Schoharie normally reaches 50° and falls to 28°. The record high is 65°, in 2011; the record low 8°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.90 in, fell in 1997.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1985 at Lansing Manor, 17 miles south-southwest, 510 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
