The Kitty Hawk 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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81° on Nov. 12, 1985, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1966. Next is 78° in 2021.
Kitty Hawk’s center stands about 20 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 70 ft, a difference of 70 ft: gently rolling country. Open water lies within three miles.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Surficial Deposits, Undivided (sand, clay, gravel), from the Quaternary, less than 2.6 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.
Sand, clay, gravel. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 8 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 Kitty Hawk reaches Albemarle Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Duck Pond Creek: about 1 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Kitty Hawk; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Kitty Hawk has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 36° in January. About 46 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 1 inch of snow.
On November 14 Kitty Hawk normally reaches 62° and falls to 48°. The record high is 76°, in 1985; the record low 26°, in 1976. The most rain on this date, 0.50 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1966 at Manteo, 10 miles south. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
