The Sunrise Lake 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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0° on Nov. 17, 1933, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1901. Next is 2° in 1908.
Sunrise Lake’s center stands about 1,440 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,220 ft to 1,560 ft, a difference of 340 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is High Knob, about 2,060 ft, 8 miles west.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Long Run and Walcksville Members of Catskill Formation, undivided (sandstone, siltstone, mudstone), from the Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old.
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 12×. 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, mudstone. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone. Age: Early Devonian to Middle Devonian, 384 to 422 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Conglomerate-sandstone, sandstone. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Siltstone, shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 0.5 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 Sunrise Lake reaches Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Rattlesnake Creek, Shohola Creek and the Delaware: about 260 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Sunrise Lake; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Sunrise Lake has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 78° in July; winter nights fall to about 15° in January. About 50 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Sunrise Lake normally reaches 46° and falls to 30°. The record high is 65°, in 1955; the record low 5°, in 1905. The most rain on this date, 1.85 in, fell in 1949.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1901 from the Mount Pocono Area threaded record (Pocono Mountains Municipal Airport, 25 miles west-southwest, 440 ft higher). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
