The Remington 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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Remington’s center stands about 290 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 250 ft to 400 ft, a difference of 150 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Viewtree Mountain, about 1,100 ft, 14 miles north.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Newark Supergroup; Triassic shale and siltstone (shale, siltstone), from the Triassic, 202 to 252 million years old.
The section below crosses 11 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 45×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Melange. Age: Neoproterozoic to Ordovician, 445 to 1,000 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone. Age: Triassic, 202 to 252 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Metabasalt. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Basalt. Age: Early Jurassic, 175 to 202 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Basalt. Age: Early Jurassic, 175 to 202 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Triassic, 202 to 252 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. 5 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 Remington reaches Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Tinpot Run and the Rappahannock: about 140 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Remington; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
