The Warrington 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.
79° on Nov. 15, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1865. Next is 77° in 1973.
Warrington’s center stands about 400 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 190 ft to 410 ft, a difference of 220 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Rock Hill, about 860 ft, 14 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Stockton Formation (arkose), from the Triassic, 202 to 252 million years old.
The section below crosses 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 36×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Arkose. Age: Triassic, 202 to 252 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Argillite. Age: Triassic, 202 to 252 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Mudstone. Age: Triassic, 202 to 252 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Precambrian. About 1 mi of the line.
Mica-schist. Age: Paleozoic, 252 to 542 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Precambrian. 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. 1 smaller unit 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 Warrington reaches Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Little Neshaminy Creek, Neshaminy Creek and the Delaware: about 120 river miles.
85 miles of the trip are on the Delaware.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Warrington; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Warrington has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 24° in January. A normal year brings about 27 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 46 inches of water.
On November 14 Warrington normally reaches 55° and falls to 37°. The record high is 72°, in 1993; the record low 16°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.89 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1865 from the Trenton Area threaded record (Trenton-Mercer Airport, 17 miles east, 210 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.