The Newfield 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 1994. Next is 70° in 2022.
Newfield’s center stands about 420 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 370 ft to 750 ft, a difference of 380 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Green Mountain, about 1,920 ft, 13 miles northwest.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
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, limestone. Age: Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Sandstone, mudstone. Age: Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Mudstone. Age: Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Mesozoic, 66 to 252 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Granodiorite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 0.7 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 Newfield reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Branch Brook, the Little Ossipee and the Saco: about 55 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Newfield; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Newfield has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about 8° in January. A normal year brings about 81 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 52 inches of water.
On November 14 Newfield normally reaches 46° and falls to 26°. The record high is 62°, in 2010; the record low 7°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.13 in, fell in 2006.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1994 at Hollis, 9 miles east, 120 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
