The Peachtree 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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79° on Nov. 15, 2005, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1994. Next is 79° in 2011.
Peachtree City’s center stands about 910 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 770 ft to 960 ft, a difference of 190 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Granite undifferentiated, from the Precambrian to Paleozoic.
The section below crosses 9 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 57×. 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, mica-schist, amphibolite. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 9 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 3 mi of the line.
Schist. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 3 mi of the line.
Mica-schist. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 2 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 2 mi of the line.
Granite, amphibolite. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 2 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 3 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 Peachtree City reaches the Gulf of America by way of Flat Creek, Line Creek, the Flint and the Apalachicola: about 420 river miles.
290 miles of the trip are on the Flint.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Peachtree City; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Peachtree City has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 34° in January. About 49 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Peachtree City normally reaches 66° and falls to 41°. The record high is 79°, in 2011; the record low 22°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 0.79 in, fell in 2024.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1994 at Peachtree City Falcon Field, 3 miles south-southeast, 120 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
