The Raemon 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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3.60 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1946. The next wettest, 3.51 inches, fell in 2009.
Raemon’s center stands about 170 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 140 ft to 210 ft, a difference of 70 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Black Creek Formation (clay, sand), from the Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old.
The section below crosses 2 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.
Clay, sand. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 17 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 7 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 Raemon reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Wilkinson Creek, Shoe Heel Creek, the Little Pee Dee, the Great Pee Dee, Schooner Creek and the Waccamaw: about 150 river miles.
100 miles of the trip are on the Little Pee Dee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Raemon; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Raemon has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 33° in January. About 47 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 1 inch of snow.
On November 14 Raemon normally reaches 66° and falls to 42°. The record high is 82°, in 1989; the record low 24°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 1.61 in, fell in 1947.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1946 at Laurinburg, 10 miles northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
