The Rush 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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Rush’s center stands about 970 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 900 ft to 1,570 ft, a difference of 670 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Cork Hill, about 1,940 ft, 14 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.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 18×. 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 24 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 Rush reaches Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of East 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 Rush; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
