The East Millinocket 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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3.92 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1902. The next wettest, 3.44 inches, fell in 1918.
East Millinocket’s center stands about 450 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 260 ft to 570 ft, a difference of 310 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Whetstone Mountain, about 1,480 ft, 13 miles north-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Silurian undifferentiated pelites and sandstones (slate, sandstone), from the Silurian, 422 to 445 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 23×. 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 10 mi of the line.
Slate, sandstone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Silurian, 428 to 445 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Chert, banded-iron-formation. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Schist. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 0.7 mi of the line.
Mudstone. Age: Ordovician to Devonian, 359 to 487 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. 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 East Millinocket reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the West Branch Penobscot and the Penobscot: about 100 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of East Millinocket; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
East Millinocket has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 79° in July; winter nights fall to about 6° in January. About 43 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 East Millinocket normally reaches 43° and falls to 28°. The record high is 66°, in 1903; the record low 8°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 2.01 in, fell in 2006.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1902 from the Millinocket Area threaded record (Millinocket Municipal Airport, 5 miles west). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
