The Boone 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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5.19 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1980. The next wettest, 3.26 inches, fell in 2009.
Boone’s center stands about 3,250 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 3,080 ft to 4,540 ft, a difference of 1,460 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Calloway Peak, about 5,920 ft, 11 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Biotite Granitic Gneiss, from the Mesoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic, 950 to 1,250 million years old.
The section below crosses 7 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.
Amphibolite. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic, 1 to 1 billion years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic, 950 to 1,250 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Metasiltstone. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Gneiss, mica-schist. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion 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. 1 smaller unit 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 Boone reaches the Gulf of America by way of Boone Creek, the South Fork New, the New River, the Kanawha, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 2,120 river miles.
Lake on the way: Claytor Lake.
970 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Boone; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Boone has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 79° in July; winter nights fall to about 22° in January. A normal year brings about 26 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 59 inches of water.
On November 14 Boone normally reaches 53° and falls to 30°. The record high is 68°, in 1985; the record low 10°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 0.57 in, fell in 2008.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1980 at Boone 1 SE, here, 150 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
