The Bowling Green 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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4° on Nov. 16, 1933, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 5° in 1911.
Bowling Green’s center stands about 700 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 660 ft to 720 ft, a difference of 60 ft: nearly flat ground.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Lockport Dolomite (dolostone), from the Silurian, 425 to 445 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
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, 428 to 445 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 425 to 445 million years old. About 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 Bowling Green reaches Lake Erie by way of Toussaint Creek and the Toussaint: about 40 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Bowling Green; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Bowling Green has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in January. A normal year brings about 21 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 35 inches of water.
On November 14 Bowling Green normally reaches 50° and falls to 34°. The record high is 73°, in 2010; the record low 12°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.16 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Bowling Green Wwtp, 2 miles east. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
