The Junction City 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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Junction City’s center stands about 680 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 530 ft to 750 ft, a difference of 220 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Turkey Knob, about 1,010 ft, 15 miles north-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Eutaw Formation (sand, clay), from the Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old.
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 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.
Biotite-gneiss. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 6 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 4 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 0.7 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 Junction City reaches the Gulf of America by way of Patsiliga Creek, the Flint and the Apalachicola: about 350 river miles.
210 miles of the trip are on the Flint.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Junction City; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
