The Bradford 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 1934. Next is 69° in 1956.
Bradford’s center stands about 1,440 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,420 ft to 2,300 ft, a difference of 880 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Hartzfelt Mountain, about 2,430 ft, 11 miles east-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Chadakoin Formation (siltstone, shale), from the Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old.
The section below crosses 8 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 20×. 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. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, shale. Age: Devonian to Carboniferous, 324 to 422 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Siltstone, shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Late Devonian to Carboniferous, 324 to 384 million years old. About 0.7 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 2 smaller units along the line are not listed.
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 Bradford reaches the Gulf of America by way of West Branch Tunungwant Creek, Tunungwant Creek, the Allegheny, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 2,210 river miles.
Lake on the way: Allegheny Reservoir.
970 miles of the trip are on the Ohio.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Bradford; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Bradford has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 79° in July; winter nights fall to about 13° in January. A normal year brings about 75 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 50 inches of water.
On November 14 Bradford normally reaches 47° and falls to 28°. The record high is 67°, in 2010; the record low 3°, in 1996. The most rain on this date, 1.37 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1934 at Bradford 4 SW Res 5, 5 miles southwest, 220 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
