The Peninsula 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.
Peninsula’s center stands about 840 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 670 ft to 1,150 ft, a difference of 480 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Coal Hill, about 1,260 ft, 10 miles south-southeast.
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 32×. 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, sandstone. Age: Devonian to Carboniferous, 324 to 422 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Shale, black-shale. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 3 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 Peninsula reaches Lake Erie by way of the Cuyahoga: about 30 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 Peninsula; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Peninsula 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 Peninsula 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, 14 miles south-southeast, 200 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
