The Charlotte 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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65° on Nov. 14, 2005, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1994. Next is 65° in 2012.
Charlotte’s center stands about 90 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 70 ft to 480 ft, a difference of 410 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Cooper Hill, about 730 ft, 11 miles west-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Devonian granite, from the Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old.
The section below crosses 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 32×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Granite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Felsic-volcanic, mafic-volcanic. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Early Ordovician to Late Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Basalt. 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. 1 smaller unit along the line are not listed.
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 Charlotte reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Pennamaquan: about 8 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Charlotte; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Charlotte has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 77° in July; winter nights fall to about 11° in January. A normal year brings about 95 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 55 inches of water.
On November 14 Charlotte normally reaches 46° and falls to 31°. The record high is 65°, in 2005; the record low 15°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.21 in, fell in 2006.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1994 at Robbinston, 8 miles northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
