The Tate 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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81° on Nov. 12, 2024, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1942. Next is 80° in 2006.
Tate City’s center stands about 2,720 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,360 ft to 4,750 ft, a difference of 2,390 ft: mountain country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Wine Spring Bald, about 5,460 ft, 14 miles north.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Biotite Gneiss (biotite-gneiss), from the Precambrian to Paleozoic.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 6×. 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. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 15 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Gneiss, mica-schist. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 3 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 Tate City reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Tallulah, the Tugaloo and the Savannah: about 380 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Burton.
290 miles of the trip are on the Savannah.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Tate City; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Tate City has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 26° in January. About 72 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 3 inches of snow.
On November 14 Tate City normally reaches 63° and falls to 33°. The record high is 76°, in 1964; the record low 14°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 3.22 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1942 at Coweeta Experiment Station, 9 miles northeast, 470 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
