Clayton Lake is an unincorporated village in

Aroostook County Aroostook County ( ; french: Comté d'Aroostook) is a county in the U.S. state of Maine along the Canada–U.S. border. As of the 2020 census, the population was 67,105. Its county seat is Houlton, with offices in Caribou and Fort Kent. Kn ...

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, United States. The community is located within the Northwest Aroostook unorganized territory, specifically T11 R14, on the north shore of its eponymous lake within the

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in southwestern Aroostook County. Clayton Lake has been a logging camp since the 1920s. It is periodically used as a base of operations as needs arise such as fighting forest fires. The village had a post office until 2008 when the community post office was discontinued. The post office had the distinction of being the only post office in the country where mail going to another point in Maine had to pass through two other states as well as Canada. Mail for Clayton Lake was serviced by the post office in Portland, who sent the mail via truck to Boston, then by plane to Montreal and then by train to Lac de la Frontiere, Quebec, before being delivered to Clayton Lake.

Clayton Lake

Clayton Lake is a lake located immediately south of Clayton Lake Village. The lake is and has a maximum depth of . The lake contains several species of fish, including landlocked salmon, brook trout and rainbow smelt.

Transportation

Clayton Lake is only accessible via private roads within the

. There is a private turf landing strip located north of Clayton Lake.

Climate

Like the rest of

, the climate is

warm-summer humid continental A humid continental climate is a climate, climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and ...

( Köppen: ''Dfb'') bordering on a

subarctic climate The subarctic climate (also called subpolar climate, or boreal climate) is a climate with long, cold (often very cold) winters, and short, warm to cool summers. It is found on large landmasses, often away from the moderating effects of an ocean, ge ...

( Dfc), with cold and very snowy winters, and pleasant summers on a few occasions being hot.

References

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