The Rougemont 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, 2022, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 82° in 1993.
Rougemont’s center stands about 580 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 440 ft to 730 ft, a difference of 290 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Glenns Mountain, about 860 ft, 3 miles north-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Felsic Metavolcanic Rock (metadacite, metarhyolite, metavolcanic), from the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 38×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Metadacite, metarhyolite, metavolcanic. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Metagranite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Middle Cambrian, 520 to 650 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Conglomerate, sandstone, mudstone. Age: Triassic, 202 to 252 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Metasedimentary. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Metaandesite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 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 Rougemont reaches Pamlico Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Neuse: about 270 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Rougemont; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Rougemont has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 26° in January. About 47 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 3 inches of snow.
On November 14 Rougemont normally reaches 63° and falls to 34°. The record high is 80°, in 1958; the record low 18°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.47 in, fell in 1940.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Roxboro 7 ESE, 9 miles north-northeast, 130 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
