The Newborn 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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Newborn’s center stands about 750 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 600 ft to 790 ft, a difference of 190 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Cornish Mountain, about 980 ft, 13 miles north-northwest.
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 53×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Amphibolite, biotite-gneiss, mica-schist. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 11 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 4 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 4 mi of the line.
Gneiss, amphibolite. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 4 mi of the line.
Hornblende-gneiss, amphibolite. 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 Newborn reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Tanyard Branch, Shoal Creek, the Little River, the Oconee and the Altamaha: about 320 river miles.
140 miles of the trip are on the Oconee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Newborn; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
