The Hambleton 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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79° on Nov. 14, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1899. Next is 77° in 1949.
Hambleton’s center stands about 1,720 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,620 ft to 3,540 ft, a difference of 1,920 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Porte Crayon, about 4,800 ft, 15 miles southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Chemung Group (siltstone, sandstone), from the Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old.
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.
Siltstone, sandstone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 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 Hambleton reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Black Fork, the Cheat, the Monongahela, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 2,120 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 Hambleton; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hambleton has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 20° in January. A normal year brings about 69 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 47 inches of water.
On November 14 Hambleton normally reaches 55° and falls to 30°. The record high is 79°, in 1993; the record low 5°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.25 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1899 from the Elkins Area threaded record (Elkins- Randolph County Airport, 17 miles southwest, 240 ft higher). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
