The Washington 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. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1921. Next is 72° in 2012.
Washington’s center stands about 1,580 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,360 ft to 1,730 ft, a difference of 370 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Hetrick Hill, about 1,770 ft, 15 miles east-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Pottsville Formation (sandstone, conglomerate), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 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 29×. 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, conglomerate. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 17 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 0.5 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 0.4 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 Washington reaches the Gulf of America by way of East Branch Hemlock Creek, Hemlock Creek, the Allegheny, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 2,100 river miles.
970 miles of the trip are on the Ohio.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Washington; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Washington has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in January. A normal year brings about 51 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 47 inches of water.
On November 14 Washington normally reaches 51° and falls to 33°. The record high is 71°, in 1989; the record low 12°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 0.86 in, fell in 1997.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1921 at Tionesta 2 SE Lake, 7 miles north, 380 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
