The Appling 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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5.20 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1961. The next wettest, 5.00 inches, fell in 2009.
Appling’s center stands about 310 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 250 ft to 460 ft, a difference of 210 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Carmel, about 500 ft, 7 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Granitic Gneiss undifferentiated, from the Precambrian to Paleozoic.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 47×. 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: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 20 mi of the line.
Paragneiss. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Cretaceous to Tertiary, 2.6 to 145 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 0.6 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.
A raindrop that lands in Appling reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Greenbrier Creek, Kiokee Creek and the Savannah: about 220 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Appling; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Appling has a cold desert climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 32° in January. Barely 0.0 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Appling normally reaches 68° and falls to 40°. The record high is 82°, in 2020; the record low 18°, in 1984. The most rain on this date, 2.60 in, fell in 2008.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1961 at Appling 2 NW, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
