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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75° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 68° in 2012.
Keating’s center stands about 2,040 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,680 ft to 2,430 ft, a difference of 750 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Lyon Hill, about 2,570 ft, 14 miles east-northeast.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 15×. 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 14 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 10 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.
Keating straddles the Eastern Continental Divide. Rain on the northwest side runs to the Gulf of America; most of the rest goes to Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.
From the center of town, a raindrop reaches Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Freeman Run, First Fork Sinnemahoning Creek, Sinnemahoning Creek, the West Branch Susquehanna and the Susquehanna: about 290 river miles. One that lands on the northwest side reaches the Gulf of America by way of Allegheny Portage Creek, the Allegheny, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 2,260 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Aldred.
110 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 Keating; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Keating has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about 14° in January. A normal year brings about 55 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 43 inches of water.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Port Allegany, 11 miles northwest, 560 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
