The Van Buren 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, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1963. Next is 67° in 2008.
Van Buren’s center stands about 680 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 420 ft to 1,020 ft, a difference of 600 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Cold Mountain, about 1,070 ft, 7 miles west-northwest.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 28×. 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, mudstone. Age: Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Mudstone, sandstone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Mudstone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 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.
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 Van Buren reaches the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Violette Stream and the Saint John: about 230 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Van Buren; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Van Buren has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 76° in July; winter nights fall to about −5° in February. A normal year brings about 97 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 42 inches of water.
On November 14 Van Buren normally reaches 40° and falls to 25°. The record high is 54°, in 1992; the record low −1°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.95 in, fell in 2003.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1963 at Van Buren 2, 3 miles east-southeast, 220 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
