The Nobleboro 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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67° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1965. Next is 66° in 2022.
Nobleboro’s center stands about 180 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 10 ft to 280 ft, a difference of 270 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Coggans Hill, about 820 ft, 15 miles northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Devonian - Ordovician Bucksport Formation (sandstone, limestone), from the Ordovician to Devonian, 359 to 487 million years old.
The section below crosses 8 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 48×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone, limestone. Age: Ordovician to Devonian, 359 to 487 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Slate. Age: Neoproterozoic to Ordovician, 445 to 1,000 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Felsic-volcanic, mafic-volcanic. Age: Neoproterozoic to Ordovician, 445 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Metasedimentary, metavolcanic. Age: Neoproterozoic to Ordovician, 445 to 1,000 million years old. About 0.4 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 2 smaller units 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 Nobleboro reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Damariscotta: about 30 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Nobleboro; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Nobleboro has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 78° in July; winter nights fall to about 15° in January. A normal year brings about 79 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 49 inches of water.
On November 14 Nobleboro normally reaches 46° and falls to 33°. The record high is 62°, in 1973; the record low 11°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.03 in, fell in 2006.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1965 at Newcastle, 4 miles southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
