The Richlands 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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19° on Nov. 17, 2011, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1955. Next is 23° in 1967.
Richlands’s center stands about 60 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 20 ft to 100 ft, a difference of 80 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Castle Hayne Formation; Comfort Member and New Hanover Member, undivided (limestone), from the Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 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.
Limestone. Age: Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 5 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 Richlands reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Squires Run and the New River: about 40 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Richlands; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Richlands has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 35° in January. About 56 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Richlands normally reaches 67° and falls to 44°. The record high is 83°, in 1985; the record low 24°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 0.72 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1955 at New River Mcaf, 14 miles south-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
