The North Attleborough Town 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. 15, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1913. Next is 73° in 2022.
North Attleborough Town’s center stands about 190 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 120 ft to 400 ft, a difference of 280 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Keech Hill, about 660 ft, 15 miles west-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Wamsutta Formation (conglomerate, graywacke), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 44×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sandstone, graywacke. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Conglomerate, graywacke. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Neoproterozoic, 615 to 645 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Syenite. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 0.4 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 North Attleborough Town reaches Narragansett Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Seekonk and the Providence: about 25 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of North Attleborough Town; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
North Attleborough Town has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 18° in January. A normal year brings about 50 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 52 inches of water.
On November 14 North Attleborough Town normally reaches 52° and falls to 32°. The record high is 72°, in 1993; the record low 13°, in 1981. The most rain on this date, 1.29 in, fell in 1982.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1913 at Norton West, 9 miles east. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
