The Keating 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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69° on Nov. 11, 2012, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1957. Next is 66° in 2014.
Keating’s center stands about 2,170 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,490 ft to 2,260 ft, a difference of 770 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Prospect Hill, about 2,460 ft, 6 miles east-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Pottsville Formation (sandstone, conglomerate), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 22×. 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, conglomerate. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, shale. Age: Devonian to Carboniferous, 324 to 422 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Siltstone, shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 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.
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 Keating reaches the Gulf of America by way of Cole Creek, Potato Creek, the Allegheny, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 2,240 river miles.
Lake on the way: Allegheny Reservoir.
970 miles of the trip are on the Ohio.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Keating; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Keating has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 79° in July; winter nights fall to about 16° in January. About 42 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Keating normally reaches 46° and falls to 30°. The record high is 64°, in 1989; the record low 12°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.20 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1957 at Bradford Regional Airport, 8 miles west-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
