The Madawaska 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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66° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1996. Next is 63° in 2002.
Madawaska’s center stands about 580 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 440 ft to 1,130 ft, a difference of 690 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Glass Hill, about 1,270 ft, 10 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Devonian Seboomook Formation (mudstone, sandstone), from the Early Devonian, 410 to 414 million years old.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 19×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Mudstone, sandstone. Age: Early Devonian, 410 to 414 million years old. About 4 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 Madawaska reaches the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Martin Brook and the Saint John: about 250 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Madawaska; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Madawaska has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 76° in July; winter nights fall to about 3° in January. About 33 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Madawaska normally reaches 39° and falls to 26°. The record high is 54°, in 2006; the record low 5°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.49 in, fell in 2006.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1996 at Frenchville Northern Aroostook Airport, 5 miles south, 400 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
