The Schooner Bay 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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20° on Nov. 14, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1955. Next is 21° in 1967.
Schooner Bay’s center stands barely above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 70 ft, a difference of 70 ft: gently rolling country. Open water lies within three miles.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Marsh and Intertidal Mud Deposits (clay, silt), from the Holocene, less than 12,000 years old.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sand, gravel. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sand, gravel, silt. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Clay, silt. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 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.
Rain that falls on Schooner Bay runs straight into Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Schooner Bay; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Schooner Bay has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. A normal year brings about 7 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 47 inches of water.
On November 14 Schooner Bay normally reaches 61° and falls to 42°. The record high is 76°, in 1993; the record low 20°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.98 in, fell in 1997.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1955 at Painter 2 W, 13 miles south-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
