The Crooked Creek 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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Crooked Creek’s center stands about 410 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 330 ft to 620 ft, a difference of 290 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Biotite Granite Gneiss/ Feldspathic Biotite Gneiss/ Amphibolite Hornblende Gneiss, from the Precambrian to Paleozoic.
The section below crosses 9 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 45×. 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 7 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 5 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 3 mi of the line.
Gneiss, amphibolite. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 2 mi of the line.
Quartzite, mica-schist. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 1 mi of the line.
Gneiss, granite. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 1 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 3 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 Crooked Creek reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Oconee and the Altamaha: about 280 river miles.
150 miles of the trip are on the Oconee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Crooked Creek; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
