The Gore 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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9° on Nov. 14, 1986, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1912. Next is 11° in 1933.
Gore’s center stands about 720 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 660 ft to 1,890 ft, a difference of 1,230 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Pinnacle, about 2,850 ft, 10 miles southwest.
The section below crosses 8 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.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Shale, black-shale. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Arenite, shale, sandstone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 2 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 Gore reaches Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Back Creek and the Potomac: about 280 river miles.
230 miles of the trip are on the Potomac.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Gore; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Gore has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in July; winter nights fall to about 21° in January. About 40 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Gore normally reaches 57° and falls to 32°. The record high is 76°, in 1958; the record low 9°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.39 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1912 at Winchester 7 SE, 14 miles southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
