The Clyde 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. 16, 1933, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1901. Next is 5° in 2019.
Clyde’s center stands about 700 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 630 ft to 770 ft, a difference of 140 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.
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 52×. 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 8 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Shale, black-shale. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 0.8 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 Clyde reaches Lake Erie by way of Raccoon Creek: about 13 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 Clyde; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Clyde has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 85° in July; winter nights fall to about 18° in January. A normal year brings about 26 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 38 inches of water.
On November 14 Clyde normally reaches 51° and falls to 33°. The record high is 75°, in 1909; the record low 8°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.52 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1901 at Fremont, 8 miles west-northwest, 100 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
