The Plymouth Meeting 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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77° on Nov. 12, 2015, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 76° in 2020.
Plymouth Meeting’s center stands about 190 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 40 ft to 370 ft, a difference of 330 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Diamond Rock Hill, about 700 ft, 12 miles west.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Patapsco(?) Formation (clay), from the Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old.
The section below crosses 8 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 33×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Schist, phyllite. Age: Paleozoic, 252 to 542 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Quartzite, schist. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Precambrian. About 3 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Arkose. Age: Triassic, 202 to 252 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 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. 2 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 Plymouth Meeting reaches Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Plymouth Creek, the Schuylkill and the Delaware: about 85 river miles.
60 miles of the trip are on the Delaware.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Plymouth Meeting; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Plymouth Meeting has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 23° in January. A normal year brings about 25 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 51 inches of water.
On November 14 Plymouth Meeting normally reaches 57° and falls to 35°. The record high is 74°, in 1955; the record low 19°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 0.70 in, fell in 2020.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Norristown, 3 miles west, 130 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
