The Hubbardston 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. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1959. Next is 73° in 1993.
Hubbardston’s center stands about 990 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 820 ft to 1,220 ft, a difference of 400 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Wachusett Mountain, about 2,000 ft, 6 miles east.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Littleton Formation (schist, phyllite), from the Early Devonian, 394 to 422 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 24×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Schist, phyllite. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Mica-schist. Age: Late Ordovician, 449 to 453 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Early Devonian to Late Devonian, 375 to 405 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Early Devonian to Late Devonian, 375 to 405 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Granofels, schist. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 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 Hubbardston reaches Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the West Branch Ware, the Ware, the Chicopee and the Connecticut: about 140 river miles.
80 miles of the trip are on the Connecticut.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Hubbardston; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hubbardston has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 13° in January. A normal year brings about 60 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 48 inches of water.
On November 14 Hubbardston normally reaches 50° and falls to 28°. The record high is 66°, in 1964; the record low 5°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 0.85 in, fell in 1975.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1959 at Barre Falls Dam, 3 miles south-southwest, 160 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
