The Meansville 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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Meansville’s center stands about 820 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 740 ft to 970 ft, a difference of 230 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Dorster Mountain, about 1,280 ft, 9 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Biotite Gneiss/ Feldspathic Biotite Gneiss, from the Precambrian to Paleozoic.
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 38×. 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 10 mi of the line.
Mica-schist. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 7 mi of the line.
Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 5 mi of the line.
Schist. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 2 mi of the line.
Mylonite. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 0.5 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 Meansville reaches the Gulf of America by way of Gola Creek, Little Potato Creek, Potato Creek, the Flint and the Apalachicola: about 390 river miles.
240 miles of the trip are on the Flint.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Meansville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
