The West Winfield 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. 11, 1948, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 73° in 1956.
West Winfield’s center stands about 1,190 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,170 ft to 1,810 ft, a difference of 640 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Angel Hill, about 2,120 ft, 9 miles south-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Onondaga Limestone (shale), from the Early Devonian to Middle Devonian, 388 to 410 million years old.
The section below crosses 11 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, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Middle Devonian, 384 to 394 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Black-shale. Age: Middle Devonian, 388 to 394 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Early Devonian to Middle Devonian, 388 to 410 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone, shale. Age: Silurian, 422 to 428 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. 5 smaller units 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 West Winfield reaches Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of North Winfield Creek, the Unadilla and the Susquehanna: about 460 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Aldred.
360 miles of the trip are on the Susquehanna.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of West Winfield; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
West Winfield has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 73° in July; winter nights fall to about 14° in January. A normal year brings about 86 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 48 inches of water.
On November 14 West Winfield normally reaches 40° and falls to 30°. The record high is 70°, in 1989; the record low 9°, in 1939. The most rain on this date, 0.95 in, fell in 1949.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Cooperstown, 18 miles southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
