The Cashiers 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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6.60 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1879. The next wettest, 4.92 inches, fell in 1927.
Cashiers’s center stands about 3,500 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,870 ft to 4,450 ft, a difference of 1,580 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Rich Mountain Bald, about 5,560 ft, 14 miles north-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Quartz Diorite to Granodiorite (granodiorite, quartz-diorite), from the Middle Devonian, 390 to 391 million years old.
The section below crosses 9 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 5×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Granodiorite, quartz-diorite. Age: Middle Devonian, 390 to 391 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Biotite-gneiss. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1.2 to 1.2 billion years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Gneiss, mica-schist. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Biotite-gneiss, amphibolite. Age: Mesoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,600 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Amphibolite. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 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. 3 smaller units 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 Cashiers reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Chattooga, the Tugaloo and the Savannah: about 390 river miles.
290 miles of the trip are on the Savannah.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Cashiers; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Cashiers has a oceanic climate. Summer afternoons average 78° in July; winter nights fall to about 24° in January. A normal year brings about 10 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 88 inches of water.
On November 14 Cashiers normally reaches 54° and falls to 32°. The record high is 73°, in 1931; the record low 12°, in 1920. The most rain on this date, 2.50 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1879 at Highlands, 7 miles west-southwest, 350 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
