The Lincoln 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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−6° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1981. Next is 0° in 1986.
Lincoln’s center stands about 980 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 930 ft to 2,950 ft, a difference of 2,020 ft: mountain country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Ellen, about 4,060 ft, 5 miles northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Pinnacle Formation - metawacke member (metagraywacke, conglomerate, phyllite), from the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old.
The section below crosses 21 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 5×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Mica-schist, phyllite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Quartzite. Age: Early Cambrian, 521 to 542 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Phyllite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Early Cambrian, 521 to 542 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone, marble. Age: Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 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. 15 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 Lincoln reaches the St. Lawrence River by way of Cota Brook, the New Haven, Otter Creek and the Richelieu: about 180 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 Lincoln; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lincoln has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 76° in July; winter nights fall to about 6° in January. A normal year brings about 112 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 49 inches of water.
On November 14 Lincoln normally reaches 44° and falls to 25°. The record high is 66°, in 2005; the record low −5°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.95 in, fell in 1984.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1981 at South Lincoln, 3 miles south-southeast, 360 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
