The Pleasant Garden 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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4.30 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1948. The next wettest, 2.57 inches, fell in 2009.
Pleasant Garden’s center stands about 850 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 720 ft to 900 ft, a difference of 180 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Metamorphosed Granitic Rock (metagranite), from the Neoproterozoic to Middle Cambrian, 520 to 650 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 54×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Metagranite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Middle Cambrian, 520 to 650 million years old. About 19 mi of the line.
Metagabbro, metadiorite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Paleozoic, 252 to 1,000 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Metadacite, metarhyolite, metavolcanic. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Metadacite, metarhyolite, metavolcanic. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 0.4 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 Pleasant Garden reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Big Alamance Creek, the Haw and the Cape Fear: about 270 river miles.
190 miles of the trip are on the Cape Fear.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Pleasant Garden; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Pleasant Garden has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. About 46 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Pleasant Garden normally reaches 61° and falls to 39°. The record high is 79°, in 1955; the record low 23°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.57 in, fell in 2024.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Greensboro Wtp, 9 miles north-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
