The Upton 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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75° on Nov. 16, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1959. Next is 73° in 2020.
Upton’s center stands about 330 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 270 ft to 620 ft, a difference of 350 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Denny Hill, about 970 ft, 15 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Scituate Granite Gneiss, from the Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 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 29×. 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, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Neoproterozoic, 615 to 645 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Alkali-granite. Age: Neoproterozoic, 596 to 606 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Granite, granodiorite. Age: Neoproterozoic, 615 to 645 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 Upton reaches Narragansett Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Miscoe Brook, the Blackstone, the Seekonk and the Providence: about 45 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Upton; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Upton has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 15° in January. A normal year brings about 47 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 49 inches of water.
On November 14 Upton normally reaches 51° and falls to 30°. The record high is 68°, in 1964; the record low 11°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.12 in, fell in 1988.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1959 at Buffumville Lake, 16 miles west-southwest, 190 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
