The Minot 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 1995. Next is 71° in 2022.
Minot’s center stands about 610 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 240 ft to 840 ft, a difference of 600 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Streaked Mountain, about 1,740 ft, 9 miles north-northwest.
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.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Silurian, 428 to 434 million years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 359 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Marble. Age: Silurian, 428 to 445 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Schist, slate. Age: Silurian, 428 to 445 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Metasandstone. Age: Silurian, 434 to 445 million years old. About 0.9 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 Minot reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Indian Brook, the Little Androscoggin, the Androscoggin and the Kennebec: about 60 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Minot; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Minot has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 79° in July; winter nights fall to about 14° in January. A normal year brings about 84 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 50 inches of water.
On November 14 Minot normally reaches 47° and falls to 32°. The record high is 63°, in 2011; the record low 12°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 4.20 in, fell in 2009.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1995 at Gray, 17 miles south-southeast, 230 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
