The Vass 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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Vass’s center stands about 310 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 260 ft to 420 ft, a difference of 160 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Gaddys Mountain, about 550 ft, 10 miles south-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Cape Fear Formation (sandstone, mudstone), from the Cretaceous, 66 to 145 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 51×. 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 15 mi of the line.
Sandstone, mudstone. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Mudstone, sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Triassic, 202 to 252 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Gravel, sand. Age: Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 million years old. About 0.7 mi of the line.
Phyllite, schist. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 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 Vass reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Little River and the Cape Fear: about 210 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 Vass; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
