The Kettlersville 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 1948. Next is 72° in 2010.
Kettlersville’s center stands about 980 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 930 ft to 1,030 ft, a difference of 100 ft: gently rolling country.
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, 425 to 445 million years old. About 16 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Shale, dolostone, limestone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 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.
Kettlersville straddles the St. Lawrence Divide. Rain on the southwest side runs to the Gulf of America; most of the rest goes to Lake Erie.
From the center of town, a raindrop reaches Lake Erie by way of Muddy Creek, East Branch, the Saint Marys and the Maumee: about 240 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic. One that lands on the southwest side reaches the Gulf of America by way of Loramie Creek, the Great Miami, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,610 river miles.
140 miles of the trip are on the Maumee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Kettlersville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Kettlersville has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 18° in January. About 42 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Kettlersville normally reaches 52° and falls to 32°. The record high is 71°, in 1989; the record low 2°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.93 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Sidney 1 S, 13 miles south-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
