The Elizabethtown 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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5.85 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1910. The next wettest, 2.95 inches, fell in 1957.
Elizabethtown’s center stands about 120 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 40 ft to 170 ft, a difference of 130 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Black Creek Formation (clay, sand), from the Cretaceous, 66 to 145 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, sand. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 24 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 Elizabethtown reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Browns Creek and the Cape Fear: about 95 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Elizabethtown; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Elizabethtown has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 32° in January. About 53 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Elizabethtown normally reaches 65° and falls to 40°. The record high is 82°, in 1959; the record low 22°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 0.85 in, fell in 1997.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1910 at Elizabethtown, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
