The Lincoln 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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68° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1969. Next is 67° in 2002.
Lincoln’s center stands about 1,580 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,280 ft to 2,960 ft, a difference of 1,680 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is West Kennebago Mountain, about 3,690 ft, 14 miles northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Ordovician - Cambrian Aziscohos Formation (shale, quartzite, siltstone), from the Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old.
The section below crosses 9 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 11×. 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. Age: Cambrian to Ordovician, 445 to 542 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Shale, quartzite, siltstone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Pelitic-schist, quartzite. Age: Cambrian to Early Ordovician, 471 to 497 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 0.9 mi of the line.
Slate. Age: Cambrian to Ordovician, 445 to 542 million years old. About 0.7 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 3 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 Lincoln reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Aziscohos Lake, the Magalloway, the Androscoggin and the Kennebec: about 220 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Umbagog Lake and Aziscohos Lake.
180 miles of the trip are on the Androscoggin.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Lincoln; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lincoln has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 76° in July; winter nights fall to about 0° in January. A normal year brings about 123 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 43 inches of water.
On November 14 Lincoln normally reaches 41° and falls to 24°. The record high is 60°, in 2010; the record low 4°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.65 in, fell in 2018.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1969 at Rangeley, 17 miles east. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
