The Lanesborough 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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70° on Nov. 15, 1956, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1925. Next is 69° in 1964.
Lanesborough’s center stands about 1,140 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 970 ft to 2,060 ft, a difference of 1,090 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Greylock, about 3,490 ft, 9 miles north-northeast.
The section below crosses 8 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 10×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Phyllite, schist. Age: Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Marble. Age: Early Cambrian, 521 to 542 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Marble. Age: Early Cambrian, 521 to 542 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Phyllite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian, 521 to 1,000 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Phyllite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian, 521 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Marble. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 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. 2 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 Lanesborough reaches Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Town Brook and the Housatonic: about 150 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Lanesborough; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lanesborough has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 79° in July; winter nights fall to about 14° in January. About 44 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Lanesborough normally reaches 47° and falls to 30°. The record high is 63°, in 1959; the record low 13°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.45 in, fell in 1959.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1925 at Pittsfield Municipal Airport, 7 miles south-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
