The Parsonsfield 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.
Parsonsfield’s center stands about 760 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 420 ft to 1,160 ft, a difference of 740 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Green Mountain, about 1,920 ft, 6 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Devonian - Silurian Rindgemere Formation lower member (mudstone, limestone), 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 14×. 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 10 mi of the line.
Quartzite. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Granodiorite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Mesozoic, 66 to 252 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Alkali-feldspar-syenite. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 1 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 Parsonsfield reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Great Brook, the Ossipee and the Saco: about 60 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Parsonsfield; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Parsonsfield 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 Parsonsfield 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, 14 miles east-southeast, 460 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
