The Jewett City 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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12° on Nov. 16, 1996, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1956. Next is 14° in 1956.
Jewett City’s center stands about 150 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 80 ft to 400 ft, a difference of 320 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Sunset Hill, about 850 ft, 14 miles north-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Quinebaug Formation (gneiss), from the Ordovician to Middle Ordovician, 459 to 487 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 33×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Gneiss. Age: Ordovician to Middle Ordovician, 459 to 487 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Biotite-gneiss. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Gneiss, schist. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Gabbro. Age: Ordovician to Middle Ordovician, 459 to 487 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Schist. Age: Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 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. 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 Jewett City reaches Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Pachaug, the Quinebaug, the Shetucket and the Thames: about 25 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Jewett City; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Jewett City has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 21° in January. A normal year brings about 28 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 52 inches of water.
On November 14 Jewett City normally reaches 54° and falls to 35°. The record high is 72°, in 1993; the record low 17°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 2.25 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1956 at Norwich Public Utility Plant, 7 miles southwest, 130 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
