The New Canada 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 1893. Next is 65° in 2002.
New Canada’s center stands about 1,000 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 670 ft to 1,150 ft, a difference of 480 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Pennington Mountain, about 1,750 ft, 13 miles south.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Devonian Seboomook Formation (mudstone, sandstone), from the Early Devonian, 410 to 414 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 20×. 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 17 mi of the line.
Sandstone, mudstone. Age: Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Mudstone, sandstone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 0.9 mi of the line.
Mudstone, sandstone. Age: Silurian, 422 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.
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 New Canada reaches the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Fall Brook, the Fish and the Saint John: about 280 river miles.
Lake on the way: Square Lake.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of New Canada; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
New Canada has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 76° in July; winter nights fall to about −3° in January. A normal year brings about 99 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 42 inches of water.
On November 14 New Canada normally reaches 39° and falls to 23°. The record high is 58°, in 1951; the record low 0°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.18 in, fell in 2003.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Fort Kent, 8 miles northwest, 390 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
