The Stacyville 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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3.92 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1902. The next wettest, 3.44 inches, fell in 1918.
Stacyville’s center stands about 570 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 350 ft to 760 ft, a difference of 410 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Deasey Mountain, about 1,920 ft, 10 miles west-northwest.
The section below crosses 10 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 18×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Slate, sandstone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Quartzite, calc-silicate-rock. Age: Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Chert, banded-iron-formation. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Mafic-volcanic, felsic-volcanic. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 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. 4 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 Stacyville reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Torrie Brook, Swift Brook, Mud Brook, the East Branch Penobscot and the Penobscot: about 120 river miles.
95 miles of the trip are on the Penobscot.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Stacyville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Stacyville has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 79° in July; winter nights fall to about 6° in January. About 43 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Stacyville normally reaches 43° and falls to 28°. The record high is 66°, in 1903; the record low 8°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 2.01 in, fell in 2006.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1902 from the Millinocket Area threaded record (Millinocket Municipal Airport, 17 miles south-southwest, 170 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
