The Newark 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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69° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1990. Next is 68° in 2002.
Newark’s center stands about 1,830 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,310 ft to 2,580 ft, a difference of 1,270 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is East Mountain, about 3,440 ft, 10 miles east-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Willoughby pluton - main zone (pegmatite), from the Middle Devonian to Late Devonian, 367 to 385 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 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.
Quartzite. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Pegmatite. Age: Middle Devonian to Late Devonian, 367 to 385 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Phyllite, limestone. Age: Silurian to Early Devonian, 394 to 425 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.
Newark straddles the St. Lawrence Divide. Rain on the northeast side runs to the St. Lawrence River; most of the rest goes to Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean.
From the center of town, a raindrop reaches Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Bean Brook, the East Branch Passumpsic, the Passumpsic and the Connecticut: about 320 river miles. One that lands on the northeast side reaches the St. Lawrence River by way of Oswegatchie Brook, the Clyde, the Magog and the Saint-François: about 200 river miles. The St. Lawrence carries it on to the Atlantic.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Newark; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Newark has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 76° in July; winter nights fall to about 3° in January. A normal year brings about 115 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 45 inches of water.
On November 14 Newark normally reaches 42° and falls to 27°. The record high is 60°, in 2010; the record low −3°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.31 in, fell in 2021.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1990 at Island Pond, 6 miles north-northeast, 630 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
