The Middleburg 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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4.37 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1893. The next wettest, 4.02 inches, fell in 2018.
Middleburg’s center stands about 470 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 300 ft to 510 ft, a difference of 210 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Foliated to Massive Granitic Rock, from the Early Pennsylvanian to Permian, 270 to 320 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 63×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Granitic. Age: Early Pennsylvanian to Permian, 270 to 320 million years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Biotite-gneiss, mica-schist, amphibolite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Biotite-gneiss. Age: Proterozoic, 542 to 2,500 million years old. About 1 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 Middleburg reaches Pamlico Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Fishing Creek, the Tar and the Pamlico: about 200 river miles.
110 miles of the trip are on Fishing Creek.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Middleburg; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Middleburg has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 26° in January. About 49 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 2 inches of snow.
On November 14 Middleburg normally reaches 63° and falls to 35°. The record high is 81°, in 1951; the record low 18°, in 1976. The most rain on this date, 1.50 in, fell in 1940.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Henderson 2 NNW, 6 miles southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
