The Henderson 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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Henderson’s center stands about 1,360 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 650 ft to 1,460 ft, a difference of 810 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Butler Knob, about 2,340 ft, 14 miles south.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Foreknobs Formation (sandstone), from the Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old.
The section below crosses 13 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 11×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Black-shale. Age: Early Devonian to Middle Devonian, 384 to 422 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Quartzite. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Siltstone. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Siltstone, shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 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. 7 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 Henderson reaches Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Sugar Grove Run, the Juniata and the Susquehanna: about 180 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Aldred.
90 miles of the trip are on the Juniata.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Henderson; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
