The Mechanic 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.
Mechanic Falls’s center stands about 290 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 240 ft to 820 ft, a difference of 580 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Streaked Mountain, about 1,740 ft, 10 miles north.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Carboniferous alkali feldspar granite (muscovite accessory, abundant sedimentary inclusions), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 359 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 17×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Granite. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 359 million years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Metasandstone. Age: Silurian, 434 to 445 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 359 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Silurian, 428 to 434 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Marble. Age: Silurian, 428 to 445 million years old. About 0.8 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 Mechanic Falls reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Little Androscoggin, the Androscoggin and the Kennebec: about 65 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Mechanic Falls; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Mechanic 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 Mechanic 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, 17 miles east-southeast, 150 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
