The Ashland 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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67° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1939. Next is 66° in 2002.
Ashland’s center stands about 700 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 520 ft to 870 ft, a difference of 350 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Orcutt Mountain, about 1,640 ft, 13 miles west.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Devonian unnamed sedimentary rocks (mudstone, sandstone), from the Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 23×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Mudstone, sandstone. Age: Early Devonian, 410 to 414 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Mudstone, sandstone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Felsic-volcanic, mafic-volcanic. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Mudstone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 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 Ashland reaches the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Dug Brook, the Aroostook and the Saint John: about 250 river miles.
190 miles of the trip are on the Saint John.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Ashland; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Ashland has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 77° in July; winter nights fall to about 3° in January. A normal year brings about 118 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 41 inches of water.
On November 14 Ashland normally reaches 40° and falls to 26°. The record high is 60°, in 1951; the record low 3°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 2.22 in, fell in 2006.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1939 from the Caribou Area threaded record (Caribou Wfo, 25 miles northeast). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
