The Fuquay-Varina 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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82° on Nov. 11, 2022, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1891. Next is 81° in 2001.
Fuquay-Varina’s center stands about 390 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 300 ft to 480 ft, a difference of 180 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Middendorf Formation (sand), from the Cretaceous, 66 to 145 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 56×. 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, mica-schist. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Biotite-gneiss, mica-schist, amphibolite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Gravel, sand. Age: Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 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 Fuquay-Varina reaches Pamlico Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Terrible Creek, Middle Creek and the Neuse: about 220 river miles.
180 miles of the trip are on the Neuse.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Fuquay-Varina; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Fuquay-Varina has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 29° in January. About 47 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1891 at Lillington, 12 miles south, 240 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
