The Advance 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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3.40 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1893. The next wettest, 3.35 inches, fell in 2009.
Advance’s center stands about 830 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 660 ft to 850 ft, a difference of 190 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Granitic Rock, from the Late Mississippian to Permian, 265 to 325 million years old.
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 59×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Granitic. Age: Late Mississippian to Permian, 265 to 325 million years old. About 16 mi of the line.
Metagabbro, metadiorite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Paleozoic, 252 to 1,000 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Biotite-gneiss, mica-schist, calc-silicate-rock. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 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 Advance reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Yadkin, the Pee Dee, the Great Pee Dee, Schooner Creek and the Waccamaw: about 300 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Tillery.
150 miles of the trip are on the Great Pee Dee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Advance; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Advance has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 25° in January. About 47 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 4 inches of snow.
On November 14 Advance normally reaches 62° and falls to 33°. The record high is 74°, in 1999; the record low 18°, in 1996. The most rain on this date, 1.58 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Mocksville 5 SE, 8 miles southwest, 150 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
