The Stark 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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−2° on Nov. 15, 2018, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1931. Next is −2° in 2019.
Stark’s center stands about 1,210 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 940 ft to 3,030 ft, a difference of 2,090 ft: mountain country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Cabot, about 4,150 ft, 6 miles south.
The section below crosses 9 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 7×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Granite. Age: Middle Jurassic to Late Jurassic, 145 to 175 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Devonian to Carboniferous, 324 to 422 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Jurassic, 145 to 202 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Monzodiorite. Age: Jurassic, 145 to 202 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Syenite. Age: Jurassic, 145 to 202 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Pelitic-schist. Age: Cambrian to Early Ordovician, 471 to 497 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. 3 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 Stark reaches Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Mill Brook, the Upper Ammonoosuc and the Connecticut: about 340 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Stark; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Stark has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 76° in July; winter nights fall to about 3° in January. A normal year brings about 96 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 48 inches of water.
On November 14 Stark normally reaches 42° and falls to 24°. The record high is 60°, in 2010; the record low 2°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.04 in, fell in 1940.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1931 at York Pond, 7 miles south-southeast, 310 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
