The Corinth 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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0° on Nov. 17, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 4° in 1967.
Corinth’s center stands about 1,380 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 780 ft to 1,920 ft, a difference of 1,140 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Signal Mountain, about 3,360 ft, 11 miles north.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Waits River Formation - carbonaceous phyllite and limestone member (phyllite, limestone), from the Silurian to Early Devonian, 394 to 425 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 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.
Phyllite, limestone. Age: Silurian to Early Devonian, 394 to 425 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Mica-schist, quartzite. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Quartzite. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 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.
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 Corinth reaches Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Center Brook, the Waits and the Connecticut: about 260 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Corinth; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Corinth has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 78° in July; winter nights fall to about 7° in January. About 39 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Corinth normally reaches 44° and falls to 27°. The record high is 65°, in 2011; the record low 5°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 1.74 in, fell in 2009.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Montpelier - Edward F. Knapp State Airport, 18 miles northwest, 280 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
