The Grovetown 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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28° on Nov. 11, 2025, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1996. Next is 29° in 1997.
Grovetown’s center stands about 490 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 310 ft to 550 ft, a difference of 240 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Lower Tertiary-Cretaceous undifferentiated (sand, clay), from the Cretaceous to Tertiary, 2.6 to 145 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 49×. 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 8 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Cretaceous to Tertiary, 2.6 to 145 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Paragneiss. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. 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 Grovetown reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Uchee Creek, the Little River and the Savannah: about 230 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Grovetown; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Grovetown has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in July; winter nights fall to about 40° in January. About 45 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Grovetown normally reaches 68° and falls to 48°. The record high is 81°, in 2007; the record low 32°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 3.76 in, fell in 2008.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1996 at Augusta Daniel Field Airport, 9 miles east. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
