The Beaver Cove 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 1920. Next is 66° in 2022.
Beaver Cove’s center stands about 1,750 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,150 ft to 3,250 ft, a difference of 2,100 ft: mountain country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is White Cap Mountain, about 3,630 ft, 9 miles east.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Devonian Seboomook Formation (mudstone, sandstone), from the Early Devonian, 410 to 414 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 8×. 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 12 mi of the line.
Gabbro. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Diorite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 1 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 Beaver Cove reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of South Brook and the Kennebec: about 190 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Beaver Cove; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Beaver Cove has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 75° in July; winter nights fall to about 5° in January. About 44 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Beaver Cove normally reaches 40° and falls to 27°. The record high is 58°, in 1959; the record low 7°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 1.23 in, fell in 2006.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1920 at Greenville Municipal Airport, 9 miles southwest, 360 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
