The Craig Beach 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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77° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 75° in 1926.
Craig Beach’s center stands about 950 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 910 ft to 1,060 ft, a difference of 150 ft: gently 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 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. 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 Craig Beach reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Mahoning, the Beaver, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 2,010 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 Craig Beach; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Craig Beach has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 17° in January. A normal year brings about 28 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 41 inches of water.
On November 14 Craig Beach normally reaches 51° and falls to 31°. The record high is 70°, in 1902; the record low 11°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 2.09 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Warren 3 S, 11 miles east-northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
