The Reed Creek 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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5.20 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1908. The next wettest, 5.10 inches, fell in 1957.
Reed Creek’s center stands about 820 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 650 ft to 850 ft, a difference of 200 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Biotite Granite Gneiss/ Feldspathic Biotite Gneiss/ Amphibolite Hornblende Gneiss, 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 44×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Biotite-gneiss, mica-schist. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Hornblende-gneiss, amphibolite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Schist, gneiss, amphibolite. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 2 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 2 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Ordovician to Silurian, 422 to 487 million years old. About 1 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 Reed Creek reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Savannah: about 290 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Reed Creek; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Reed Creek has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 32° in January. About 52 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Reed Creek normally reaches 63° and falls to 41°. The record high is 83°, in 1924; the record low 25°, in 1963. The most rain on this date, 1.08 in, fell in 1908.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1908 at Hartwell, 7 miles south. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
