The Cherry Branch 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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6.19 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1945. The next wettest, 4.26 inches, fell in 1992.
Cherry Branch’s center stands about 30 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 100 ft, a difference of 100 ft: gently rolling country. Open water lies within three miles.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Yorktown Formation and Duplin Formation, Undivided (clay), from the Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 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 Cherry Branch reaches Pamlico Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Cherry Branch and the Neuse: about 25 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Cherry Branch; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Cherry Branch has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 36° in January. About 57 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Cherry Branch normally reaches 67° and falls to 46°. The record high is 82°, in 1989; the record low 25°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 3.40 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1945 at Havelock Cherry Point Mcas, 5 miles west-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
