The Wurtsboro Hills 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, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1898. Next is 70° in 1956.
Wurtsboro Hills’s center stands about 1,250 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 510 ft to 1,630 ft, a difference of 1,120 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is High Point, about 2,250 ft, 11 miles northeast.
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 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 12×. 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 15 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Middle Devonian, 384 to 394 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Silurian, 422 to 428 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Graywacke, shale. Age: Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone, shale. Age: Silurian to Early Devonian, 394 to 428 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Age: Silurian to Early Devonian, 394 to 445 million years old. About 0.5 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 Wurtsboro Hills reaches Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Willsey Brook, Basher Kill and the Delaware: about 250 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Wurtsboro Hills; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Wurtsboro Hills has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 79° in July; winter nights fall to about 13° in January. A normal year brings about 70 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 53 inches of water.
On November 14 Wurtsboro Hills normally reaches 47° and falls to 29°. The record high is 66°, in 1964; the record low 6°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.60 in, fell in 1911.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1898 at Liberty 1 NE, 19 miles northwest, 330 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
