The Capitol View 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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23° on Nov. 15, 1969, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1954. Next is 25° in 2013.
Capitol View’s center stands about 320 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 150 ft to 410 ft, a difference of 260 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Peedee Formation - Black Creek Group, undivided (clay, sand), from the Late Cretaceous, 66 to 72 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 22×. 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, sand. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 72 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand, gravel. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Pliocene, 2.6 to 5.3 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand, gravel. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 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 Capitol View reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Reeder Point Branch, Mill Creek, the Congaree, the Santee and the South Santee: about 180 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lib Pines Lake.
70 miles of the trip are on the Santee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Capitol View; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Capitol View has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 96° in July; winter nights fall to about 37° in January. About 48 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Capitol View normally reaches 69° and falls to 44°. The record high is 84°, in 2007; the record low 25°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 1.70 in, fell in 2008.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1954 at Columbia University Of Sc, 6 miles west-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
