The Cameron 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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4.69 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1972. The next wettest, 4.30 inches, fell in 2018.
Cameron’s center stands about 370 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 300 ft to 470 ft, a difference of 170 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Gaddys Mountain, about 550 ft, 14 miles south-southeast.
The section below crosses 4 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.
Sand. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Sandstone, mudstone. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Mudstone, sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Triassic, 202 to 252 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Phyllite, schist. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million 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.
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 Cameron reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Little Crane Creek, Crane Creek, the Little River and the Cape Fear: about 210 river miles.
160 miles of the trip are on the Cape Fear.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Cameron; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Cameron has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. About 47 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 2 inches of snow.
On November 14 Cameron normally reaches 64° and falls to 38°. The record high is 80°, in 1999; the record low 19°, in 1977. The most rain on this date, 1.16 in, fell in 2024.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1972 at Sanford 8 NE, 19 miles northeast, 110 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
