The Dillard 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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81° on Nov. 12, 1958, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 80° in 2020.
Dillard’s center stands about 2,180 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,100 ft to 3,600 ft, a difference of 1,500 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Yellow Bald, about 5,240 ft, 8 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Granitic Gneiss undifferentiated, from the Precambrian to Paleozoic.
The section below crosses 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 5×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Metagraywacke, mica-schist. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 10 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Biotite-gneiss, amphibolite. Age: Mesoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,600 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 2 mi of the line.
Biotite-gneiss. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Schist. 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. 1 smaller unit 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 Dillard reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Little Tennessee, the Tennessee, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,740 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Guntersville Lake, White Lake (historical), Pickwick Lake and Cummings Lake.
970 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Dillard; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Dillard has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 85° in July; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. About 72 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 2 inches of snow.
On November 14 Dillard normally reaches 61° and falls to 37°. The record high is 78°, in 1985; the record low 15°, in 1977. The most rain on this date, 2.85 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Clayton 1 SSW, 6 miles south, 220 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
