The Shrewsbury 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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70° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1940. Next is 65° in 2022.
Shrewsbury’s center stands about 1,660 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 950 ft to 2,260 ft, a difference of 1,310 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Killington Peak, about 4,190 ft, 7 miles north-northeast.
The section below crosses 13 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.
Gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1.2 to 1.6 billion years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Paragneiss, quartz-feldspar-schist. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1.2 to 1.4 billion years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Paragneiss, migmatite. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1.3 to 1.3 billion years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Muscovite-schist. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1.2 to 1.4 billion years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Paragneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.2 billion years old. About 2 mi of the line.
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. 7 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 Shrewsbury reaches the St. Lawrence River by way of the Cold, Otter Creek and the Richelieu: about 220 river miles. The St. Lawrence carries it on to the Atlantic.
Lake on the way: Lake Champlain.
95 miles of the trip are on Otter Creek.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Shrewsbury; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Shrewsbury has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 75° in July; winter nights fall to about 8° in January. About 51 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1940 at Peru, 17 miles south. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
