The Blodgett Landing 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 1928. Next is 70° in 1993.
Blodgett Landing’s center stands about 1,230 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,090 ft to 1,830 ft, a difference of 740 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Kearsarge, about 2,910 ft, 9 miles east.
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 11×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Granodiorite. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Granodiorite. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Quartz-diorite, tonalite, granodiorite. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Metasedimentary. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Metaclastic. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 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. 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 Blodgett Landing reaches Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Sunapee Lake, the Sugar and the Connecticut: about 230 river miles.
Lake on the way: Sunapee Lake.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Blodgett Landing; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Blodgett Landing has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about 9° in January. A normal year brings about 66 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 42 inches of water.
On November 14 Blodgett Landing normally reaches 46° and falls to 27°. The record high is 62°, in 2010; the record low 8°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 2.64 in, fell in 1937.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1928 at Newport, 7 miles west, 460 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
