The Baring 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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74° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1917. Next is 68° in 2012.
Baring’s center stands about 250 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 80 ft to 350 ft, a difference of 270 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Cooper Hill, about 730 ft, 11 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Devonian gabbro/diorite/ultramafic rocks - quartz diorite, 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 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.
Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Gabbro, diorite, ultramafic. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 0.9 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Early Ordovician to Late Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 0.7 mi of the line.
Mafic-volcanic, felsic-volcanic. Age: Silurian to Devonian, 359 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 Baring reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Moosehorn Brook and the Pennamaquan: about 14 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Baring; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Baring has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about 13° in January. About 48 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Baring normally reaches 46° and falls to 34°. The record high is 63°, in 2012; the record low 10°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.85 in, fell in 1975.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1917 at Woodland, 6 miles northwest, 130 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
