The Middletown 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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9° on Nov. 16, 1967, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1951. Next is 12° in 1959.
Middletown’s center stands about 1,540 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 950 ft to 1,670 ft, a difference of 720 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Cork Hill, about 1,940 ft, 8 miles north.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Catskill Formation (sandstone, siltstone, shale), from the Late Devonian, 359 to 384 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 19×. 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, shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, mudstone. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 0.9 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 Middletown reaches Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Baldwin Creek, North Branch Wyalusing Creek, Wyalusing Creek and the Susquehanna: about 280 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Aldred.
210 miles of the trip are on the Susquehanna.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Middletown; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Middletown has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 78° in July; winter nights fall to about 15° in January. A normal year brings about 86 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 42 inches of water.
On November 14 Middletown normally reaches 46° and falls to 31°. The record high is 66°, in 1989; the record low 12°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.54 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1951 from the Binghamton Area threaded record (Binghamton (Greater Ap), 24 miles north-northeast). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
