The Freetown 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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77° on Nov. 16, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1900. Next is 74° in 2022.
Freetown’s center stands about 190 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 50 ft to 250 ft, a difference of 200 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Copicut Hill, about 360 ft, 5 miles south-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Granite of the Fall River pluton, from the Neoproterozoic, 600 to 601 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 58×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Granite. Age: Neoproterozoic, 600 to 601 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Sandstone, graywacke. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Granite, gneiss, schist. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 0.6 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 Freetown reaches Narragansett Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Cedar Swamp and the Taunton: about 18 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Freetown; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Freetown has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 20° in January. A normal year brings about 31 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 53 inches of water.
On November 14 Freetown normally reaches 53° and falls to 35°. The record high is 67°, in 1982; the record low 17°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.40 in, fell in 1975.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1900 at Rochester, 5 miles east, 120 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
