The Abbott 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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75° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1982. Next is 68° in 2012.
Abbott’s center stands about 1,430 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,340 ft to 2,210 ft, a difference of 870 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Lyon Hill, about 2,570 ft, 15 miles north-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Lock Haven Formation (sandstone, siltstone, mudstone), from the Late Devonian, 359 to 384 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 14×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone, siltstone. Age: Devonian to Carboniferous, 324 to 422 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, mudstone. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate. 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 Abbott reaches Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Little Kettle Creek, Kettle Creek, the West Branch Susquehanna and the Susquehanna: about 270 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Aldred.
100 miles of the trip are on the West Branch Susquehanna.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Abbott; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Abbott has a cold desert climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 18° in January. Barely 0.0 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1982 at Alvin R Bush Dam, 17 miles south-southwest, 500 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
