The Brownville 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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73° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1973. Next is 67° in 2022.
Brownville’s center stands about 360 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 280 ft to 760 ft, a difference of 480 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Saddleback Mountain, about 2,960 ft, 15 miles north-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Devonian - Silurian Madrid Formation (quartzite, calc-silicate-rock), from the Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 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 21×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Quartzite, calc-silicate-rock. Age: Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Schist. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Silurian, 428 to 434 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Marble. Age: Silurian, 428 to 445 million years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 0.5 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 Brownville reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Piscataquis and the Penobscot: about 95 river miles.
60 miles of the trip are on the Penobscot.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Brownville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Brownville has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about 4° in January. A normal year brings about 77 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 45 inches of water.
On November 14 Brownville normally reaches 45° and falls to 26°. The record high is 63°, in 2010; the record low 4°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.14 in, fell in 2018.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1973 at Dover-Foxcroft Wwtp, 11 miles southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
