The Eden 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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5.32 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1962. The next wettest, 3.08 inches, fell in 2020.
Eden’s center stands about 580 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 510 ft to 780 ft, a difference of 270 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Chestnut Knob, about 1,540 ft, 12 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Newark Supergroup, Dan River Group; Stoneville Formation (mudstone, sandstone, conglomerate), from the Triassic, 202 to 252 million years old.
The section below crosses 13 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 23×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Biotite-gneiss, mica-schist, calc-silicate-rock. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Gneiss, amphibole-schist. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Metagraywacke, muscovite-schist. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Norite. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Mudstone, sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Triassic, 202 to 252 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Mica-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. 7 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 Eden reaches Albemarle Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Smith, the Dan and the Roanoke: about 290 river miles.
Lake on the way: Roanoke Rapids Lake.
130 miles of the trip are on the Roanoke.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Eden; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Eden has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 29° in January. A normal year brings about 7 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 48 inches of water.
On November 14 Eden normally reaches 60° and falls to 38°. The record high is 77°, in 1985; the record low 16°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.21 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1962 at Reidsville 2 NW, 9 miles south-southeast, 310 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
