The Silver Springs 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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76° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1952. Next is 69° in 2012.
Silver Springs’s center stands about 1,410 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,310 ft to 1,730 ft, a difference of 420 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Round Top, about 1,890 ft, 13 miles southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Nunda Formation (sandstone), from the Late Devonian, 359 to 384 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 13×. 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, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 2 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 Silver Springs reaches Lake Ontario by way of the Genesee: about 90 river miles. From the lake it goes down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Silver Springs; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Silver Springs has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 76° in July; winter nights fall to about 13° in January. About 45 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Silver Springs normally reaches 44° and falls to 30°. The record high is 65°, in 1989; the record low 10°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.72 in, fell in 1992.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1952 at Warsaw 6 SW, 7 miles west-northwest, 410 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
