The Harman 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.
Harman’s center stands about 2,380 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,290 ft to 4,190 ft, a difference of 1,900 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Porte Crayon, about 4,800 ft, 4 miles east.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Pocono Group (sandstone), from the Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old.
The section below crosses 14 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 6×. 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, sandstone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 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. 8 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 Harman reaches the Gulf of America by way of Horsecamp Run, the Dry Fork, the Black Fork, the Cheat, the Monongahela, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 2,140 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 Harman; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Harman 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 Harman 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, 18 miles west, 420 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
