The Laurelton 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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10° on Nov. 11, 2017, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1996. Next is 15° in 2019.
Laurelton’s center stands about 700 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 580 ft to 1,900 ft, a difference of 1,320 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is The Winehead, about 2,380 ft, 15 miles west-northwest.
The section below crosses 11 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.
Shale. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 4 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 1 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 5 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 Laurelton reaches Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Penns Creek and the Susquehanna: about 150 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Aldred.
75 miles of the trip are on the Susquehanna.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Laurelton; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Laurelton has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in January. A normal year brings about 29 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 44 inches of water.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1996 at Lewisburg, 18 miles east-northeast, 200 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
