between the headwaters of both the Androscoggin River and Kennebec River, the town lies on the eastern shores of Rangeley Lake in the Western Maine Mountains. Smalls Falls, lying just south of the town on Route 4, is a popular tourist destination. A sign in town notes that Rangeley is halfway between the Equator and North Pole. Climate This climatic region has large seasonal temperature differences, with warm (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Rangeley has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps. Similar to the rest of New England, snowfall is high in Rangeley, but due to the cold mean temperatures in winter, it remains on the ground for several months. Summer temperatures are moderated by the elevation and are thus cooler than other nearby towns. Rangeley's extreme temperatures since the current station's inception in 1969 have ranged from on September 10, 2002 to on January 20, 1994. It is exceptionally rare for a station on the east side of the Americas to have its warmest measured temperature for more than half a century in early fall. Diurnal temperature variation is generally high, which means vast differences between day and night temperatures. Even considering this, Rangeley occasionally gets severe cold also during daytime. The coldest daily high measured was on December 26, 1980 and the mean for the coldest daily maximum during the 1991–2020 normals was in the subzero Fahrenheit range at . Warm summer nights are quite rare, with the record high minimum being on July 14, 1987 and July 12, 2020, and the 1991–2020 mean for the warmest low being at . The maximum snow depth measured since regular confirmed recordings were made was at on March 8, 1982 and March 31, 2001. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 1,168 people, 575 households, and 338 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 1,829 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 98.4% White, 0.5% Asian, 0.6% from other races, and 0.5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.0% of the population. There were 575 households, of which 19.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.1% were married couples living together, 7.7% had a female householder with no