The Pinehurst 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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87° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1892. Next is 86° in 1958.
Pinehurst’s center stands about 380 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 360 ft to 420 ft, a difference of 60 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Suwannee Limestone and its residuum, from the Oligocene, 23 to 34 million years old.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Limestone. Age: Oligocene, 23 to 34 million years old. About 21 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 4 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.
Pinehurst straddles the Eastern Continental Divide. Rain on the northwest side runs to the Gulf of America; most of the rest goes to the Atlantic Ocean.
From the center of town, a raindrop reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of South Prong Creek, Big Creek, the Ocmulgee and the Altamaha: about 270 river miles. One that lands on the northwest side reaches the Gulf of America by way of Little Creek, Turkey Creek, the Flint and the Apalachicola: about 280 river miles.
130 miles of the trip are on the Altamaha.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Pinehurst; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Pinehurst has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 36° in January. About 50 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Pinehurst normally reaches 69° and falls to 44°. The record high is 83°, in 1955; the record low 26°, in 1984. The most rain on this date, 1.25 in, fell in 2008.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1892 at Cordele, 15 miles south. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
