The Genesee 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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74° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1956. Next is 69° in 2012.
Genesee’s center stands about 1,640 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,600 ft to 2,390 ft, a difference of 790 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Bailey Hill, about 2,590 ft, 11 miles southeast.
The section below crosses 4 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, sandstone. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone. Age: Devonian to Carboniferous, 324 to 422 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Siltstone, shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 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.
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.
Genesee straddles the St. Lawrence Divide. Rain on the west side runs to the Gulf of America; most of the rest goes to Lake Ontario.
From the center of town, a raindrop reaches Lake Ontario by way of the West Branch Genesee and the Genesee: about 150 river miles. From the lake it goes down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic. One that lands on the west side reaches the Gulf of America by way of Hemlock Hollow Run, Oswayo Creek, the Allegheny, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 2,240 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Genesee; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Genesee 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 54 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 40 inches of water.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1956 at Wellsville, 10 miles north-northwest, 130 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
