The Benton Ridge 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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3° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1942. Next is 10° in 1959.
Benton Ridge’s center stands about 790 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 750 ft to 810 ft, a difference of 60 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Salina Group (dolostone), from the Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 24 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 Benton Ridge reaches Lake Erie by way of Ottawa Creek, the Blanchard, the Auglaize and the Maumee: about 140 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
65 miles of the trip are on the Maumee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Benton Ridge; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Benton Ridge has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 21° in January. About 34 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Benton Ridge normally reaches 52° and falls to 35°. The record high is 70°, in 1971; the record low 12°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.78 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1942 at Findlay Airport, 6 miles east. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
