The Sugar Hill 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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−4° on Nov. 17, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1996. Next is −1° in 1996.
Sugar Hill’s center stands about 1,280 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 830 ft to 1,970 ft, a difference of 1,140 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Lafayette, about 5,200 ft, 9 miles east-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Ammonoosuc Volcanics, Bimodal volcanic rocks (felsic-volcanic, mafic-volcanic), from the Middle Ordovician to Late Ordovician, 445 to 471 million years old.
The section below crosses 16 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 5×. 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 6 mi of the line.
Metagraywacke. Age: Early Devonian, 410 to 414 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Felsic-volcanic, mafic-volcanic. Age: Middle Ordovician to Late Ordovician, 445 to 471 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Metasandstone, metasiltstone, phyllite. Age: Middle Cambrian to Early Ordovician, 485 to 500 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Granodiorite. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Metarhyolite. Age: Middle Ordovician to Late Ordovician, 445 to 471 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. 10 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 Sugar Hill reaches Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Salmon Hole Brook, the Ammonoosuc and the Connecticut: about 290 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Sugar Hill; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Sugar Hill has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about 5° in January. About 37 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1996 at Whitefield Mount Washington Regional Airport, 16 miles northeast, 230 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
