The Moyock 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. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1996. Next is 80° in 2011.
Moyock’s center stands about 17 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 70 ft, a difference of 70 ft: gently rolling country.
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.
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 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 14 mi of the line.
Sand, silt. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Peat, clay, sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 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 Moyock reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Shingle Landing Creek, the Northwest and the North Landing: about 18 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Moyock; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Moyock has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 34° in January. About 49 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1996 at Fentress Naval Auxiliary Field, 12 miles north-northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
