The Farwell 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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3.43 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1895. The next wettest, 2.75 inches, fell in 1903.
Farwell’s center stands about 910 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 630 ft to 2,110 ft, a difference of 1,480 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Hyner Mountain, about 2,180 ft, 8 miles east.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Catskill Formation (sandstone, siltstone, shale), from the Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 12×. 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. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 6 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 Farwell reaches Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the West Branch Susquehanna and the Susquehanna: about 230 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Aldred.
95 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 Farwell; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Farwell has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in January. A normal year brings about 33 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 41 inches of water.
On November 14 Farwell normally reaches 50° and falls to 32°. The record high is 72°, in 1902; the record low 14°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.63 in, fell in 1997.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1895 at Renovo, here, 250 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
