The Embden 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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71° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 69° in 1930.
Embden’s center stands about 380 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 250 ft to 740 ft, a difference of 490 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Burnt Hill, about 2,240 ft, 14 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Devonian Carrabassett Formation (schist), from the Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old.
The section below crosses 8 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 13×. 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 9 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Silurian, 428 to 434 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Silurian, 425 to 434 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Mudstone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Schist. 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. 2 smaller units 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 Embden reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Mill Stream and the Kennebec: about 110 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Embden; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Embden has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 79° in July; winter nights fall to about 5° in January. A normal year brings about 74 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 42 inches of water.
On November 14 Embden normally reaches 45° and falls to 27°. The record high is 69°, in 1930; the record low 5°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.03 in, fell in 1904.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Madison, 8 miles south, 160 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
