The Easthampton 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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72° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1926. Next is 71° in 2022.
Easthampton’s center stands about 170 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 90 ft to 960 ft, a difference of 870 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Moore Hill, about 1,710 ft, 15 miles north-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows New Haven Arkose (arkose, siltstone, sandstone), from the Late Triassic, 202 to 237 million years old.
The section below crosses 9 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.
Arkose, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Late Triassic, 202 to 237 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Arkose, siltstone. Age: Early Jurassic, 175 to 202 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Conglomerate, arkose. Age: Early Jurassic, 175 to 202 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Phyllite, schist. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Schist. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Schist. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 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. 3 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 Easthampton reaches Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Wilton Brook, the Manhan and the Connecticut: about 95 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Easthampton; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Easthampton has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 85° in July; winter nights fall to about 15° in January. About 45 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Easthampton normally reaches 51° and falls to 31°. The record high is 66°, in 2011; the record low 11°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.44 in, fell in 1995.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1926 from the Westfield Area threaded record (Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport, 8 miles south-southwest). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
