The Spout Springs 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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82° on Nov. 11, 2022, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1891. Next is 81° in 2001.
Spout Springs’s center stands about 350 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 220 ft to 440 ft, a difference of 220 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Gaddys Mountain, about 550 ft, 12 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Middendorf Formation (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 57×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sand. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 18 mi of the line.
Sandstone, mudstone. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 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 Spout Springs reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Little Bridge Branch, Jumping Run Creek, the Little River and the Cape Fear: about 190 river miles.
160 miles of the trip are on the Cape Fear.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Spout Springs; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Spout Springs has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 29° in January. About 47 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1891 at Lillington, 17 miles northeast, 200 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
