The White Haven 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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72° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1958. Next is 71° in 2012.
White Haven’s center stands about 1,160 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,090 ft to 1,710 ft, a difference of 620 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Big Pine Hill, about 2,260 ft, 14 miles north-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Mauch Chunk Formation (shale, siltstone, sandstone), from the Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 15×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Shale, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Devonian to Carboniferous, 324 to 422 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Conglomerate-sandstone, clastic. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 0.3 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 White Haven reaches Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Lehigh and the Delaware: about 220 river miles.
150 miles of the trip are on the Delaware.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of White Haven; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
White Haven has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 79° in July; winter nights fall to about 16° in January. About 49 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 White Haven normally reaches 48° and falls to 30°. The record high is 65°, in 1964; the record low 10°, in 1997. The most rain on this date, 0.91 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1958 at Francis E Walter Dam, 5 miles north-northeast, 350 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
