The Camden 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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70° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1976. Next is 68° in 2022.
Camden’s center stands about 110 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 10 ft to 1,220 ft, a difference of 1,210 ft: steep hill country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Megunticook, about 1,370 ft, 2 miles north.
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 15×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Schist, granulite. Age: Cambrian to Ordovician, 445 to 542 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Slate, schist, quartzite. Age: Middle Ordovician to Late Ordovician, 450 to 470 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Conglomerate. Age: Cambrian to Ordovician, 445 to 542 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Schist. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 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.
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 Camden reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Megunticook: about 1 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Camden; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Camden has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 77° in July; winter nights fall to about 12° in January. A normal year brings about 69 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 56 inches of water.
On November 14 Camden normally reaches 47° and falls to 32°. The record high is 65°, in 2010; the record low 8°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.47 in, fell in 2018.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1976 at West Rockport 1 NNW, 4 miles west-southwest, 250 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
