The River Bend 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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6.85 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1933. The next wettest, 5.51 inches, fell in 1937.
River Bend’s center stands about 40 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 110 ft, a difference of 110 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows River Bend Formation (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 10 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 million years old. About 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 River Bend reaches Pamlico Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Trent and the Neuse: about 50 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of River Bend; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
River Bend has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 34° in January. About 53 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 River Bend normally reaches 66° and falls to 43°. The record high is 81°, in 1993; the record low 25°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 0.96 in, fell in 1940.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1933 from the New Bern Area threaded record (New Bern - Coastal Carolina Regional Airport, 6 miles east). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
