The Killington 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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−5° on Nov. 16, 1933, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1916. Next is −4° in 1916.
Killington’s center stands about 1,330 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,200 ft to 2,630 ft, a difference of 1,430 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Killington Peak, about 4,190 ft, 5 miles south-southwest.
The section below crosses 9 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 6×. 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, 1.2 to 1.6 billion years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Granofels, quartzite. Age: Cambrian to Early Ordovician, 471 to 542 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Paragneiss, quartz-feldspar-schist. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1.2 to 1.4 billion years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Phyllite. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Phyllite, muscovite-schist. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Muscovite-schist. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1.2 to 1.4 billion 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. 3 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 Killington reaches Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Roaring Brook, the Ottauquechee and the Connecticut: about 250 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Killington; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Killington has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about 8° in January. A normal year brings about 75 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 40 inches of water.
On November 14 Killington normally reaches 47° and falls to 26°. The record high is 69°, in 1989; the record low 1°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.20 in, fell in 1937.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1916 at Rutland, 11 miles west-southwest, 710 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
