The Burke 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 1983. Next is 72° in 2012.
Burke’s center stands about 870 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 560 ft to 1,190 ft, a difference of 630 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Ragged Lake Mountain, about 2,740 ft, 15 miles south-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Potsdam Sandstone, from the Cambrian, 487 to 497 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 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.
Gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 497 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Cambrian to Early Ordovician, 471 to 542 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Dolostone, limestone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Charnockite, gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 0.3 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
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.
Burke has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 77° in July; winter nights fall to about 6° in January. A normal year brings about 98 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 40 inches of water.
On November 14 Burke normally reaches 43° and falls to 28°. The record high is 66°, in 2005; the record low 0°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.59 in, fell in 2015.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1983 at Malone, 8 miles west-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
