The Wells 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. 13, 2022, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1989. Next is 67° in 1989.
Wells’s center stands about 70 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 230 ft, a difference of 230 ft: rolling country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Bauneg Beg Mountain, about 870 ft, 11 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Silurian - Precambrian Z Kittery Formation (metasandstone, phyllite), from the Neoproterozoic to Silurian, 422 to 1,000 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 23×. 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 3 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Neoproterozoic to Silurian, 422 to 1,000 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Metasandstone, phyllite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Silurian, 422 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Schist, phyllite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Devonian, 359 to 1,000 million years old. About 0.6 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 Wells reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Webhannet: about 7 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Wells; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Wells has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 77° in July; winter nights fall to about 13° in January. A normal year brings about 49 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 52 inches of water.
On November 14 Wells normally reaches 49° and falls to 30°. The record high is 62°, in 2010; the record low 10°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.11 in, fell in 2006.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1989 at Kennebunkport, 6 miles east-northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
