The Walton 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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69° on Nov. 11, 2022, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1959. Next is 68° in 1964.
Walton’s center stands about 1,230 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,190 ft to 2,400 ft, a difference of 1,210 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Craig Hill, about 2,660 ft, 15 miles east-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Lower Walton Formation (sandstone, conglomerate, shale), from the Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 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.
Sandstone, conglomerate, shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Middle Devonian to Late Devonian, 359 to 394 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.
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 Walton reaches Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of West Brook, the West Branch Delaware and the Delaware: about 340 river miles.
Lake on the way: Cannonsville Reservoir.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Walton; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Walton has a cold desert climate. Summer afternoons average 81° in July; winter nights fall to about 12° in January. Barely 0.0 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Walton normally reaches 50° and falls to 27°. The record high is 68°, in 1964; the record low 9°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 0.97 in, fell in 1961.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1959 at Downsville Dam, 10 miles southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
