The Scott 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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73° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 67° in 2012.
Scott’s center stands about 1,420 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 900 ft to 1,920 ft, a difference of 1,020 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Truxton Hill, about 2,090 ft, 9 miles east-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Genesee Group (shale), from the Late Devonian, 359 to 384 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 14×. 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 19 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Middle Devonian, 384 to 394 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Middle Devonian, 384 to 394 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Middle Devonian, 384 to 388 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Black-shale. Age: Middle Devonian, 388 to 394 million years old. About 0.6 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone. Age: Middle Devonian, 384 to 388 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.
Scott straddles the St. Lawrence Divide. Rain on the east 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 Grout Brook, Skaneateles Creek, the Seneca and the Oswego: about 90 river miles. From the lake it goes down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic. One that lands on the east side reaches Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Callan Creek, Cold Brook, the West Branch Tioughnioga, the Tioughnioga, the Chenango and the Susquehanna: about 400 river miles.
Lake on the way: Skaneateles Lake.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Scott; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Scott has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 79° in July; winter nights fall to about 12° in January. A normal year brings about 64 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 40 inches of water.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Freeville 1 NE, 15 miles south-southwest, 380 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
