The South Canal 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.
South Canal’s center stands about 950 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 900 ft to 1,050 ft, a difference of 150 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Derthick Hill, about 1,390 ft, 13 miles northwest.
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 48×. 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 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 South Canal reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Mahoning, the Beaver, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 2,000 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 South Canal; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
South Canal 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 South Canal 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, 10 miles east-northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
