The Kingsbury 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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Kingsbury’s center stands about 980 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 850 ft to 1,680 ft, a difference of 830 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Moxie Mountain, about 2,920 ft, 13 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Devonian - Silurian Madrid Formation (quartzite, calc-silicate-rock), from the Silurian to Devonian, 359 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 14×. 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.
Quartzite, calc-silicate-rock. Age: Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Schist. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Granodiorite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Marble. Age: Silurian, 428 to 445 million years old. About 0.5 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Silurian, 425 to 434 million years old. About 0.3 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 Kingsbury reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Kingsbury Stream, the Piscataquis and the Penobscot: about 120 river miles.
60 miles of the trip are on the Penobscot.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Kingsbury; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
