The Wayne 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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Wayne’s center stands about 1,410 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 710 ft to 1,610 ft, a difference of 900 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is West Hill, about 2,140 ft, 13 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Beers Hill, Dunn Hill, Millport, and Moreland Shales; Grimes Siltstone, 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 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 11 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone. 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 0.7 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.
Wayne straddles the St. Lawrence Divide. Rain on the northwest side runs to Lake Ontario; most of the rest goes to Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.
From the center of town, a raindrop reaches Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Mud Creek, the Cohocton, the Chemung and the Susquehanna: about 360 river miles. One that lands on the northwest side reaches Lake Ontario by way of West Branch Keuka Lake, the Keuka Lake Outlet, the Seneca and the Oswego: about 120 river miles. From the lake it goes down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
Lake on the way: Lake Aldred.
250 miles of the trip are on the Susquehanna.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Wayne; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
