The Cove City 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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6.85 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1933. The next wettest, 5.51 inches, fell in 1937.
Cove City’s center stands about 50 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 40 ft to 100 ft, a difference of 60 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Castle Hayne Formation; Comfort Member and New Hanover Member, undivided (limestone), from the Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 million years old.
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 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.
Limestone. Age: Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 3 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 Cove City reaches Pamlico Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Core Creek and the Neuse: about 75 river miles.
60 miles of the trip are on the Neuse.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Cove City; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Cove City has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 34° in January. About 53 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Cove City normally reaches 66° and falls to 43°. The record high is 81°, in 1993; the record low 25°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 0.96 in, fell in 1940.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1933 from the New Bern Area threaded record (New Bern - Coastal Carolina Regional Airport, 18 miles east-southeast). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
