The Fairburn 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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82° on Nov. 16, 1958, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1878. Next is 81° in 1985.
Fairburn’s center stands about 1,040 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 870 ft to 1,050 ft, a difference of 180 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Aluminous Schist, from the Precambrian to Paleozoic.
The section below crosses 11 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 56×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Mica-schist. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 7 mi of the line.
Amphibolite, biotite-gneiss, mica-schist. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 4 mi of the line.
Schist. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 2 mi of the line.
Mica-schist, amphibolite. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 2 mi of the line.
Mica-schist, gneiss. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 2 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 2 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 5 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 Fairburn reaches the Gulf of America by way of Trickum Creek, Line Creek, the Flint and the Apalachicola: about 430 river miles.
290 miles of the trip are on the Flint.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Fairburn; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Fairburn has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 36° in January. About 50 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 2 inches of snow.
On November 14 Fairburn normally reaches 64° and falls to 44°. The record high is 80°, in 1955; the record low 22°, in 1969. The most rain on this date, 1.80 in, fell in 1888.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1878 from the Atlanta Area threaded record (Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, 9 miles east-northeast). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
