The Goshen 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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74° on Nov. 14, 1973, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 74° in 2006.
Goshen’s center stands about 1,420 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,360 ft to 2,620 ft, a difference of 1,260 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Northeast Peak, about 3,820 ft, 12 miles north.
The section below crosses 9 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 8×. 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.
Arenite, shale, sandstone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 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.
Dolostone, limestone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale, black-shale. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Cambrian to Ordovician, 445 to 542 million years old. 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. 3 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 Goshen reaches Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Mill Creek, the Calfpasture, the Maury and the James: about 330 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Goshen; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Goshen has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 21° in January. A normal year brings about 25 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 46 inches of water.
On November 14 Goshen normally reaches 53° and falls to 32°. The record high is 74°, in 1973; the record low 8°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.44 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Hot Springs, 18 miles west, 820 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
