The East Huntingdon 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. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1976. Next is 76° in 2005.
East Huntingdon’s center stands about 1,200 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,040 ft to 1,410 ft, a difference of 370 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Elk Rock, about 2,330 ft, 13 miles south-southeast.
The section below crosses 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 13×. 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, clastic. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous to Permian, 252 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. 1 smaller unit 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 Huntingdon reaches the Gulf of America by way of Stauffer Run, Jacobs Creek, the Youghiogheny, the Monongahela, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 2,010 river miles.
970 miles of the trip are on the Ohio.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of East Huntingdon; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
East Huntingdon has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 21° in January. A normal year brings about 24 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 47 inches of water.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1976 at Connellsville 2 SSW, 10 miles south, 300 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
