The Shrewsbury 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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84° on Nov. 15, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1934. Next is 80° in 1945.
Shrewsbury’s center stands about 620 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 580 ft to 1,530 ft, a difference of 950 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Armstrong Mountain, about 2,280 ft, 12 miles southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Quaternary Alluvium (fine-detrital, coarse-detrital), from the Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 13×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 2 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.
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 Shrewsbury reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Kanawha, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,750 river miles.
970 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Shrewsbury; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Shrewsbury has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 85° in July; winter nights fall to about 26° in January. About 46 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Shrewsbury normally reaches 57° and falls to 36°. The record high is 79°, in 1989; the record low 18°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.80 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1934 at London Locks, 5 miles east. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
