The West Windsor 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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68° on Nov. 11, 2002, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1996. Next is 68° in 2022.
West Windsor’s center stands about 1,300 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 670 ft to 2,390 ft, a difference of 1,720 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Ludlow Mountain, about 3,350 ft, 13 miles west-southwest.
The section below crosses 17 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.
Phyllite, limestone. Age: Silurian to Early Devonian, 394 to 425 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Syenite. Age: Early Cretaceous, 120 to 122 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Quartz-feldspar-schist. Age: Cambrian to Early Ordovician, 471 to 542 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Slate, phyllite, mica-schist. Age: Silurian to Early Devonian, 394 to 425 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Phyllite. Age: Cambrian to Early Ordovician, 471 to 542 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Mica-schist, quartzite. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 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. 11 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 West Windsor reaches Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Mill Brook and the Connecticut: about 210 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of West Windsor; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
West Windsor has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 11° in January. About 40 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 West Windsor normally reaches 47° and falls to 28°. The record high is 62°, in 2016; the record low 11°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.12 in, fell in 2009.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1996 at Springfield Hartness State Airport, 9 miles south, 730 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
