The Oakwood 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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23° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1996. Next is 24° in 2013.
Oakwood’s center stands about 1,250 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,040 ft to 1,300 ft, a difference of 260 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Buckhorn Mountain, about 1,460 ft, 13 miles north.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Metagraywacke/ Mica Schist (metagraywacke, mica-schist), from the Precambrian to Paleozoic.
The section below crosses 8 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 25×. 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 10 mi of the line.
Metagraywacke, mica-schist. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 5 mi of the line.
Mica-schist, quartzite, gneiss. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 3 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 2 mi of the line.
Gneiss, mica-schist, amphibolite. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 0.8 mi of the line.
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. 2 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 Oakwood reaches the Gulf of America by way of Woodmen Youth Camp Lake, the Chattahoochee and the Apalachicola: about 470 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Walter F George Reservoir, Woodmen Youth Camp Lake, West Point Lake and Bartletts Ferry Lake.
120 miles of the trip are on the Chattahoochee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Oakwood; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Oakwood has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 34° in January. About 52 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1996 at Gainesville Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport, 5 miles northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
