The Berlin 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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78° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1916. Next is 75° in 1927.
Berlin’s center stands about 1,270 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,010 ft to 1,290 ft, a difference of 280 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Allegheny and Pottsville Groups, Undivided (shale, siltstone), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 39×. 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. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 20 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Devonian to Carboniferous, 324 to 422 million years old. About 4 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 Berlin reaches the Gulf of America by way of Doughty Creek, Killbuck Creek, the Walhonding, the Muskingum, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,920 river miles.
970 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Berlin; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Berlin has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 18° in January. A normal year brings about 20 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 41 inches of water.
On November 14 Berlin normally reaches 52° and falls to 31°. The record high is 71°, in 1994; the record low 11°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.16 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1916 at Millersburg, 7 miles west-southwest, 450 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
