The West Farmington 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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3° on Nov. 16, 1933, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 11° in 1911.
West Farmington’s center stands about 880 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 820 ft to 1,130 ft, a difference of 310 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Sugarloaf, about 1,450 ft, 7 miles west.
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 37×. 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 12 mi of the line.
Shale, black-shale. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 5 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.
A raindrop that lands in West Farmington reaches Lake Erie by way of the Grand River: about 90 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 West Farmington; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
West Farmington has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 81° in July; winter nights fall to about 16° in January. A normal year brings about 63 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 44 inches of water.
On November 14 West Farmington normally reaches 49° and falls to 31°. The record high is 79°, in 1926; the record low 13°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.15 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Hiram, 11 miles west-southwest, 350 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
