The Tryon 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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4.76 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1917. The next wettest, 4.34 inches, fell in 2020.
Tryon’s center stands about 1,080 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 920 ft to 2,410 ft, a difference of 1,490 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Sugarloaf Mountain, about 3,950 ft, 14 miles north.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Biotite Gneiss and Schist (biotite-gneiss, mica-schist, calc-silicate-rock), from the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 9×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Gneiss. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Biotite-gneiss, mica-schist, calc-silicate-rock. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Mica-schist. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Biotite-gneiss. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Biotite-gneiss. Age: Cambrian to Ordovician, 445 to 542 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Biotite-gneiss. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 1 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 Tryon reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Vaughn Creek, the North Pacolet, the Pacolet, the Broad, the Congaree, the Santee and the South Santee: about 330 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lib Pines Lake.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Tryon; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Tryon has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 32° in January. About 64 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 5 inches of snow.
On November 14 Tryon normally reaches 61° and falls to 41°. The record high is 83°, in 1999; the record low 19°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.81 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1917 at Tryon, here, 240 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
