The University Heights 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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74° on Nov. 12, 1949, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1871. Next is 73° in 1915.
University Heights’s center stands about 1,050 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 830 ft to 1,230 ft, a difference of 400 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is McConougheys Hill, about 1,370 ft, 14 miles east-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 27×. 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 9 mi of the line.
Shale, black-shale. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 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.
University Heights has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 22° in January. A normal year brings about 64 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 41 inches of water.
On November 14 University Heights normally reaches 52° and falls to 37°. The record high is 72°, in 1994; the record low 13°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.07 in, fell in 2011.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1871 from the Cleveland Area threaded record (Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport, 18 miles west-southwest, 270 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
