The Lisbon Falls 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 1993. Next is 70° in 2022.
Lisbon Falls’s center stands about 110 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 70 ft to 360 ft, a difference of 290 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Sabattus Mountain, about 800 ft, 10 miles north.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Silurian - Ordovician Vassalboro Formation (sandstone), from the Late Ordovician to Silurian, 428 to 459 million years old.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 41×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone. Age: Late Ordovician to Silurian, 428 to 459 million years old. About 24 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
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 Lisbon Falls reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Androscoggin and the Kennebec: about 35 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Lisbon Falls; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lisbon Falls has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 79° in July; winter nights fall to about 7° in January. A normal year brings about 78 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 50 inches of water.
On November 14 Lisbon Falls normally reaches 46° and falls to 27°. The record high is 64°, in 2010; the record low 6°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.02 in, fell in 2018.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1993 at Durham, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
