The Warm Springs 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.
Warm Springs’s center stands about 970 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 780 ft to 1,320 ft, a difference of 540 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Dowdell Knob, about 1,420 ft, 5 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Quartzite, 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 27×. 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 8 mi of the line.
Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 8 mi of the line.
Mica-schist. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 7 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 Warm Springs reaches the Gulf of America by way of Cane Creek, the Flint and the Apalachicola: about 390 river miles.
270 miles of the trip are on the Flint.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Warm Springs; river miles along the main stem, rounded.