The Broad Creek 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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80° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1996. Next is 80° in 2022.
Broad Creek’s center stands about 18 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 70 ft, a difference of 70 ft: gently rolling country. Open water lies within three miles.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Surficial Deposits, Undivided (sand, clay, gravel), from the Quaternary, 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.
Clay. Age: Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 million years old. About 12 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 Broad Creek reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Gales Creek: about 1 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Broad Creek; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Broad Creek has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in July; winter nights fall to about 34° in January. About 61 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1996 at Newport/Morehead City Wfo, 5 miles northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
