The Eaton 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.
Eaton’s center stands about 1,070 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 430 ft to 1,590 ft, a difference of 1,160 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Chocorua, about 3,440 ft, 12 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Perry Mountain and Rangeley Formations, undivided (quartzite), from the Silurian, 422 to 445 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 9×. 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: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Middle Jurassic to Late Jurassic, 145 to 175 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 359 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Quartzite. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Early Jurassic to Middle Jurassic, 164 to 202 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Mudstone. Age: Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 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. 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 Eaton reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Snow Brook and the Saco: about 100 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Eaton; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Eaton 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 Eaton 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, 8 miles northeast, 620 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
