The Vershire 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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72° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1950. Next is 70° in 2022.
Vershire’s center stands about 1,240 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 960 ft to 2,260 ft, a difference of 1,300 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Butterfield Mountain, about 3,160 ft, 15 miles north.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Waits River Formation - carbonaceous phyllite and limestone member (phyllite, limestone), from the Silurian to Early Devonian, 394 to 425 million years old.
The section below crosses 8 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 10 mi of the line.
Mica-schist, quartzite. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Quartzite, phyllite, mica-schist. Age: Early Devonian, 404 to 414 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Quartzite. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Granofels, mica-schist. Age: Silurian, 434 to 445 million years old. About 0.7 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Early Devonian, 405 to 415 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. 2 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 Vershire reaches Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Ompompanoosuc and the Connecticut: about 250 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Vershire; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Vershire has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 6° in January. About 40 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1950 at Union Village Dam, 13 miles south-southeast, 780 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
