The Starkey 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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Starkey’s center stands about 810 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 440 ft to 1,190 ft, a difference of 750 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Huey Hill, about 1,960 ft, 10 miles south-southwest.
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 11×. 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 9 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone. 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.
Shale. Age: Middle Devonian, 384 to 388 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Middle Devonian, 384 to 394 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 Starkey reaches Lake Ontario by way of Seneca Lake, the Seneca and the Oswego: about 110 river miles. From the lake it goes down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
Lakes on the way: Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Starkey; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
