The Dana 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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9° on Nov. 15, 1969, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1898. Next is 12° in 1933.
Dana’s center stands about 2,250 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,900 ft to 2,550 ft, a difference of 650 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Little Pisgah Mountain, about 4,390 ft, 12 miles north-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Henderson Gneiss, from the Early Cambrian, 524 to 525 million years old.
The section below crosses 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 7×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Gneiss. Age: Early Cambrian, 524 to 525 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Silurian, 438 to 439 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Mica-schist. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Biotite-gneiss. Age: Cambrian to Ordovician, 445 to 542 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. 1 smaller unit 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.
Dana straddles the Eastern Continental Divide. Rain on the west side runs to the Gulf of America; most of the rest goes to the Atlantic Ocean.
From the center of town, a raindrop reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Tumblebug Creek, the Hungry, the Green River, the Broad, the Congaree, the Santee and the South Santee: about 360 river miles. One that lands on the west side reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Devils Fork, Mud Creek, the French Broad, the Tennessee, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,840 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lib Pines Lake.
130 miles of the trip are on the Broad.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Dana; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Dana has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 26° in January. A normal year brings about 7 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 59 inches of water.
On November 14 Dana normally reaches 59° and falls to 34°. The record high is 77°, in 1985; the record low 14°, in 1920. The most rain on this date, 1.75 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1898 at Hendersonville 1 NE, 4 miles west. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
