The Norton 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.
Chance of showers
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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.
Norton’s center stands about 1,250 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,100 ft to 1,900 ft, a difference of 800 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Gore Mountain, about 3,330 ft, 6 miles south.
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 7×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Granite, pegmatite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Quartzite. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Quartz-monzonite. Age: Early Devonian to Late Devonian, 376 to 404 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Quartz-monzodiorite. Age: Early Devonian to Late Devonian, 376 to 404 million years old. About 0.3 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.
Norton 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 Norton 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, 14 miles south-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
