The Farmington 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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76° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1953. Next is 73° in 2022.
Farmington’s center stands about 290 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 260 ft to 940 ft, a difference of 680 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Straightback Mountain, about 1,880 ft, 14 miles northwest.
The section below crosses 11 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 14×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Quartzite, metasedimentary. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Pelitic-schist, metasandstone. Age: Silurian, 434 to 445 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Metaclastic. Age: Silurian, 434 to 445 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Tonalite. Age: Early Devonian to Late Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Metagraywacke. Age: Early Devonian, 410 to 414 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Calc-silicate-rock. Age: Silurian, 434 to 445 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 5 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 Farmington reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Cocheco and the Piscataqua: about 40 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Farmington; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Farmington has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 81° in July; winter nights fall to about 10° in January. About 51 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Farmington normally reaches 49° and falls to 27°. The record high is 71°, in 1989; the record low 9°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.60 in, fell in 2018.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1953 at Sanford 2 NNW, 15 miles east-northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
