The Fayette 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 1948. Next is 71° in 2022.
Fayette’s center stands about 350 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 260 ft to 710 ft, a difference of 450 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Canton Mountain, about 1,560 ft, 15 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Silurian Sangerville Formation (shale, sandstone), from the Silurian, 428 to 434 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 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.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Silurian, 428 to 434 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Marble. Age: Silurian, 428 to 445 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Gabbro, diorite, ultramafic. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 359 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Quartzite, calc-silicate-rock. Age: Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Silurian, 425 to 434 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 Fayette reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Hales Brook, the Dead, the Androscoggin and the Kennebec: about 90 river miles.
55 miles of the trip are on the Androscoggin.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Fayette; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Fayette has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about 12° in January. About 42 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Fayette normally reaches 46° and falls to 31°. The record high is 63°, in 2011; the record low 10°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 2.41 in, fell in 2009.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Augusta State Airport, 13 miles east-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
