The Faith 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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83° on Nov. 16, 1958, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 81° in 1912.
Faith’s center stands about 900 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 720 ft to 940 ft, a difference of 220 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is High Rock Mountain, about 1,200 ft, 14 miles east.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Granite of Salisbury Plutonic Suite, from the Early Devonian to Middle Devonian, 385 to 415 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 49×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Metavolcanic. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Granitic. Age: Late Mississippian to Permian, 265 to 325 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Metagabbro, metadiorite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Paleozoic, 252 to 1,000 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Early Devonian to Middle Devonian, 385 to 415 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Phyllite, schist. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 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 Faith reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Crane Creek, the Yadkin, the Pee Dee, the Great Pee Dee, Schooner Creek and the Waccamaw: about 270 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Tillery.
150 miles of the trip are on the Great Pee Dee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Faith; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Faith has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 29° in January. About 44 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 2 inches of snow.
On November 14 Faith normally reaches 61° and falls to 37°. The record high is 80°, in 2007; the record low 15°, in 1920. The most rain on this date, 1.67 in, fell in 1940.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Salisbury, 7 miles north-northwest, 200 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
