The Beecher Falls 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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−8° on Nov. 17, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1960. Next is −4° in 2018.
Beecher Falls’s center stands about 1,110 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,010 ft to 1,930 ft, a difference of 920 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Cave Mountain, about 3,190 ft, 15 miles southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Ironbound Mountain Formation (slate, phyllite, schist), from the Early Devonian, 394 to 422 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 12×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Slate, phyllite, schist. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Metagraywacke, slate. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Metasandstone, slate. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Phyllite, metasandstone. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Metagraywacke. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 0.9 mi of the line.
Metavolcanic, slate. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 0.8 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 Beecher Falls reaches Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Connecticut: about 370 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Beecher Falls; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Beecher Falls has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 77° in July; winter nights fall to about 0° in January. A normal year brings about 81 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 41 inches of water.
On November 14 Beecher Falls normally reaches 42° and falls to 22°. The record high is 64°, in 1989; the record low −6°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.60 in, fell in 1975.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1960 at Colebrook 3 SW, 10 miles south. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
