The Kingston 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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76° on Nov. 12, 2022, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1996. Next is 75° in 2020.
Kingston’s center stands about 20 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 220 ft, a difference of 220 ft: rolling country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Pine Hills, about 410 ft, 8 miles southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Granite, gneiss, and schist, undivided (granite, gneiss, schist), from the Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old.
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.
Granite, gneiss, schist. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 20 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.
Rain that falls on Kingston runs only a short way, about 2 miles, to the Atlantic Ocean.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Kingston; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Kingston has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 20° in January. About 48 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Kingston normally reaches 53° and falls to 34°. The record high is 68°, in 2005; the record low 17°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.51 in, fell in 2000.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1996 at Plymouth Municipal Airport, 6 miles south, 120 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
