The Stannard 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. 17, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1993. Next is −1° in 2018.
Stannard’s center stands about 1,690 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,170 ft to 2,620 ft, a difference of 1,450 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Wheelock Mountain, about 2,780 ft, 3 miles east-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Gile Mountain Formation - rhythmically graded member (quartzite, phyllite, mica-schist), from the Early Devonian, 404 to 414 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 10×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Phyllite, limestone. Age: Silurian to Early Devonian, 394 to 425 million years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Quartzite, phyllite, mica-schist. Age: Early Devonian, 404 to 414 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Granofels, quartzite. Age: Cambrian to Early Ordovician, 471 to 542 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Quartzite. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
Phyllite, mica-schist. Age: Silurian to Early Devonian, 394 to 425 million years old. About 0.7 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.
Stannard straddles the St. Lawrence Divide. Rain on the north 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 Stream Mill Brook, Joes Brook, the Passumpsic and the Connecticut: about 310 river miles. One that lands on the north side reaches the St. Lawrence River by way of Stannard Brook, the Lamoille and the Richelieu: 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 Stannard; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Stannard has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 78° in July; winter nights fall to about −1° in January. About 43 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1993 at East Haven, 17 miles east-northeast, 690 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
