The Champion Heights 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 1944. Next is 74° in 1949.
Champion Heights’s center stands about 940 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 890 ft to 1,010 ft, a difference of 120 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Sugarloaf, about 1,450 ft, 15 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Maxville Limestone; Rushville, Logan, and Cuyhoga Formations, Undivided (shale, siltstone, sandstone), from the Devonian to Carboniferous, 324 to 422 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 49×. 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: Devonian to Carboniferous, 324 to 422 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale, black-shale. Age: Devonian, 359 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.
Champion Heights straddles the St. Lawrence Divide. Rain on the northwest side runs to Lake Erie; most of the rest goes to the Gulf of America.
From the center of town, a raindrop reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Mahoning, the Beaver, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,990 river miles. One that lands on the northwest side reaches Lake Erie by way of Center Creek and the Grand River: about 90 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
970 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Champion Heights; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Champion Heights has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 18° in January. A normal year brings about 40 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 43 inches of water.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1944 at Mosquito Creek Lake, 5 miles east. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
