The Roxboro 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.
Roxboro’s center stands about 650 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 530 ft to 820 ft, a difference of 290 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Glenns Mountain, about 860 ft, 10 miles south-southeast.
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 39×. 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 11 mi of the line.
Metasedimentary. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Metagabbro, metadiorite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Paleozoic, 252 to 1,000 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Metadacite, metarhyolite, metavolcanic. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 0.6 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 Roxboro reaches Albemarle Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Marlowe Creek, Storys Creek, the Hyco, the Dan and the Roanoke: about 240 river miles.
Lake on the way: Roanoke Rapids Lake.
130 miles of the trip are on the Roanoke.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Roxboro; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Roxboro 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 Roxboro 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, 6 miles east-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
