The Milo 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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73° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1973. Next is 67° in 2022.
Milo’s center stands about 340 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 270 ft to 580 ft, a difference of 310 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Schoodic Mountain, about 1,030 ft, 14 miles north.
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 25×. 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, calc-silicate-rock. Age: Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Schist. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Schist, slate. Age: Silurian, 428 to 445 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Silurian, 428 to 434 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Marble. Age: Silurian, 428 to 445 million years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Late Ordovician to Silurian, 428 to 459 million years old. About 0.5 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 Milo reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Piscataquis and the Penobscot: about 85 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 Milo; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Milo has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about 4° in January. A normal year brings about 77 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 45 inches of water.
On November 14 Milo normally reaches 45° and falls to 26°. The record high is 63°, in 2010; the record low 4°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.14 in, fell in 2018.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1973 at Dover-Foxcroft Wwtp, 11 miles west-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
