The Swansboro 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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80° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1996. Next is 80° in 2022.
Swansboro’s center stands about 9 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 70 ft, a difference of 70 ft: gently rolling country. Open water lies within three miles.
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 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.
Clay. Age: Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Sand, clay, gravel. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.5 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 Swansboro reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Queen Creek: about 3 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Swansboro; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Swansboro has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in July; winter nights fall to about 34° in January. About 61 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1996 at Newport/Morehead City Wfo, 15 miles east-northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
