The Cuyahoga Falls 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 1887. Next is 12° in 1900.
Cuyahoga Falls’s center stands about 1,010 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 710 ft to 1,110 ft, a difference of 400 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Coal Hill, about 1,260 ft, 7 miles southeast.
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 34×. 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 12 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Devonian to Carboniferous, 324 to 422 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Shale, black-shale. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 2 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 Cuyahoga Falls reaches Lake Erie by way of the Cuyahoga: about 35 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 Cuyahoga Falls; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Cuyahoga Falls has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 85° in July; winter nights fall to about 21° in January. About 32 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Cuyahoga Falls normally reaches 52° and falls to 35°. The record high is 73°, in 1909; the record low 14°, in 1911. The most rain on this date, 1.79 in, fell in 2011.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1887 at Akron Fulton International Airport, 11 miles south-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
