The Chadds Ford 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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79° on Nov. 15, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1931. Next is 75° in 1973.
Chadds Ford’s center stands about 170 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 160 ft to 480 ft, a difference of 320 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Harmony Hill, about 530 ft, 9 miles north-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Felsic and intermediate gneiss, from the Precambrian.
The section below crosses 12 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 32×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Mica-schist. Age: Paleozoic, 252 to 542 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Precambrian. About 4 mi of the line.
Age: Paleozoic, 252 to 542 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand, clay, silt. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Schist, gneiss. Age: Paleozoic, 252 to 542 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Precambrian. 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. 6 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 Chadds Ford reaches Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Harvey Run, Brandywine Creek, the Christina and the Delaware: about 55 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Chadds Ford; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Chadds Ford has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 24° in January. A normal year brings about 12 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 50 inches of water.
On November 14 Chadds Ford normally reaches 53° and falls to 37°. The record high is 73°, in 1993; the record low 21°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 2.17 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1931 at Wilmington Porter Res, 7 miles south-southeast, 100 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
