The East Brunswick 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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19° on Nov. 11, 2017, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1934. Next is 19° in 2019.
East Brunswick’s center stands about 720 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 540 ft to 1,520 ft, a difference of 980 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Bears Head, about 2,090 ft, 13 miles north-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Hamilton Group (black-shale), from the Early Devonian to Middle Devonian, 384 to 422 million years old.
The section below crosses 15 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 15×. 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: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, mudstone. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 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. 9 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 East Brunswick reaches Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Koenigs Creek, the Little Schuylkill, the Schuylkill and the Delaware: about 170 river miles.
100 miles of the trip are on the Schuylkill.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of East Brunswick; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
East Brunswick has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in January. A normal year brings about 27 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 52 inches of water.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1934 at Lehighton 1 SSW, 18 miles east-northeast, 260 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
