The Stafford Springs 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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74° on Nov. 16, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1888. Next is 73° in 2020.
Stafford Springs’s center stands about 510 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 500 ft to 940 ft, a difference of 440 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Burley Hill, about 1,320 ft, 6 miles northeast.
The section below crosses 10 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 17×. 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: Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Schist, gneiss. Age: Cambrian to Ordovician, 445 to 542 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Arkose, siltstone. Age: Early Jurassic, 175 to 202 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Granofels, schist. Age: Cambrian to Ordovician, 445 to 542 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Schist. Age: Cambrian to Ordovician, 445 to 542 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Gneiss, schist. Age: Cambrian to Ordovician, 445 to 542 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. 4 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 Stafford Springs reaches Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Middle River, the Willimantic, the Shetucket and the Thames: about 60 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Stafford Springs; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Stafford Springs has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 81° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in January. A normal year brings about 39 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 49 inches of water.
On November 14 Stafford Springs normally reaches 51° and falls to 34°. The record high is 67°, in 1902; the record low 10°, in 1905. The most rain on this date, 2.21 in, fell in 1937.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1888 at Storrs, 12 miles south-southeast, 160 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
