The Lake Milton 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.
Lake Milton’s center stands about 940 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 940 ft to 1,100 ft, a difference of 160 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Blackburn Hill, about 1,300 ft, 14 miles south-southeast.
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 58×. 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 23 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 1 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 Lake Milton 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 Lake Milton; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lake Milton 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 Lake Milton 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 northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
