The Greensboro Bend 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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−1° on Nov. 17, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1894. Next is 0° in 1916.
Greensboro Bend’s center stands about 1,170 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,110 ft to 2,230 ft, a difference of 1,120 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Wheelock Mountain, about 2,780 ft, 5 miles east.
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 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 10×. 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 12 mi of the line.
Granofels, quartzite. Age: Cambrian to Early Ordovician, 471 to 542 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Quartzite, phyllite, mica-schist. Age: Early Devonian, 404 to 414 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Phyllite, mica-schist. Age: Silurian to Early Devonian, 394 to 425 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Quartzite. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 0.7 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 Greensboro Bend reaches the St. Lawrence River by way of the Lamoille and the Richelieu: about 200 river miles. The St. Lawrence carries it on to the Atlantic.
Lake on the way: Lake Champlain.
80 miles of the trip are on the Richelieu.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Greensboro Bend; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Greensboro Bend has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 81° in July; winter nights fall to about 9° in January. A normal year brings about 87 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 40 inches of water.
On November 14 Greensboro Bend normally reaches 46° and falls to 29°. The record high is 64°, in 1989; the record low 3°, in 1905. The most rain on this date, 1.64 in, fell in 1937.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1894 at Saint Johnsbury, 15 miles southeast, 470 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
