The Linden 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.
Linden’s center stands about 120 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 90 ft to 170 ft, a difference of 80 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Alabama Hills, about 480 ft, 14 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Cape Fear Formation (sandstone, mudstone), from the Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
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.
Sandstone, mudstone. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 18 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Metasedimentary. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 0.9 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 Linden reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Little River and the Cape Fear: about 160 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Linden; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Linden 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, 11 miles north-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
