The Sweden 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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74° on Nov. 11, 2002, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1996. Next is 74° in 2022.
Sweden’s center stands about 730 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 410 ft to 1,120 ft, a difference of 710 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is South Baldface, about 3,540 ft, 14 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Carboniferous alkali feldspar granite (muscovite accessory mineral), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 359 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 10×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Granite. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 359 million years old. About 21 mi of the line.
Granitic. Age: Early Jurassic, 175 to 202 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 359 million years old. About 0.6 mi of the line.
Migmatite. Age: Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 million years old. About 0.6 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Early Jurassic to Middle Jurassic, 164 to 202 million years old. About 0.1 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
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 Sweden reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Kezar and the Saco: about 95 river miles.
80 miles of the trip are on the Saco.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Sweden; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Sweden has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 7° in January. About 47 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Sweden normally reaches 47° and falls to 26°. The record high is 63°, in 2016; the record low 4°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 2.06 in, fell in 2009.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1996 at Fryeburg Eastern Slopes Regl Airport, 12 miles south-southwest, 280 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
