The Berkley 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. 12, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1994. Next is 73° in 2022.
Berkley’s center stands about 90 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 170 ft, a difference of 170 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Copicut Hill, about 360 ft, 9 miles south.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Rhode Island Formation (sandstone, graywacke), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 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 64×. 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, graywacke. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Neoproterozoic, 600 to 601 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Conglomerate. 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.
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 Berkley reaches Narragansett Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Taunton: about 13 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Berkley; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Berkley has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 18° in January. About 50 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Berkley normally reaches 52° and falls to 33°. The record high is 68°, in 2005; the record low 15°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.64 in, fell in 1995.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1994 at Nws Boston/Norton, 8 miles north-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
