The Davis 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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4° on Nov. 12, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1993. Next is 7° in 2018.
Davis’s center stands about 3,090 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,920 ft to 3,790 ft, a difference of 870 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Porte Crayon, about 4,800 ft, 14 miles south.
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, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Siltstone, sandstone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 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. 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 Davis reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Blackwater, the Black Fork, the Cheat, the Monongahela, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 2,130 river miles.
970 miles of the trip are on the Ohio.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Davis; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Davis has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 77° in July; winter nights fall to about 17° in January. About 56 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1993 at Canaan Valley #2, 6 miles south, 160 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
