The Hammond 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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67° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 67° in 2022.
Hammond’s center stands about 750 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 540 ft to 1,030 ft, a difference of 490 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Saddleback Mountain, about 1,650 ft, 14 miles north-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Silurian Smyrna Mills Formation (slate, siltstone, quartzite), from the Silurian, 425 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 22×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Siltstone, limestone. Age: Late Ordovician to Silurian, 434 to 459 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Slate, siltstone, quartzite. Age: Silurian, 425 to 445 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Mudstone. Age: Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Conglomerate. Age: Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Mudstone, sandstone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Mudstone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 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. 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 Hammond reaches the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the B Stream, the Meduxnekeag and the Saint John: about 170 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Hammond; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hammond has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 78° in July; winter nights fall to about 3° in January. About 39 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Hammond normally reaches 42° and falls to 26°. The record high is 62°, in 1951; the record low −3°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 2.26 in, fell in 2006.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Houlton Airport, 11 miles southeast, 270 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
