The Snow Hill 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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5.53 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1916. The next wettest, 3.36 inches, fell in 1979.
Snow Hill’s center stands about 20 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 90 ft, a difference of 90 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Quaternary Deposits Undivided (fine-detrital, coarse-detrital), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
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.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 20 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 Snow Hill reaches Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Pocomoke: about 30 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Snow Hill; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Snow Hill has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. A normal year brings about 10 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 47 inches of water.
On November 14 Snow Hill normally reaches 62° and falls to 41°. The record high is 78°, in 1955; the record low 18°, in 1920. The most rain on this date, 1.57 in, fell in 1997.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1916 at Snow Hill 4 N, 4 miles north. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
