The Stamford 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.
Stamford’s center stands about 1,850 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,720 ft to 3,020 ft, a difference of 1,300 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Vly Mountain, about 3,550 ft, 14 miles southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Oneonta Formation (shale), from the Middle Devonian to Late Devonian, 359 to 394 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 10×. 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: Middle Devonian to Late Devonian, 359 to 394 million years old. About 18 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Middle Devonian, 384 to 394 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate, shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 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.
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 Stamford reaches Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the West Branch Delaware and the Delaware: about 380 river miles.
Lake on the way: Cannonsville Reservoir.
300 miles of the trip are on the Delaware.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Stamford; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Stamford 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 Stamford 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, 8 miles east-northeast, 740 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
