The Dentsville 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.
Dentsville’s center stands about 230 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 190 ft to 400 ft, a difference of 210 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Brice Hill, about 410 ft, 7 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Cape Fear/Eutaw Formations (sand, gravel), 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 49×. 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, gravel. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Pliocene, 2.6 to 5.3 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 72 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.
Mylonite. Age: Carboniferous to Permian, 252 to 359 million years old. About 0.9 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 Dentsville reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Gills Creek, the Congaree, the Santee and the South Santee: about 190 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 Dentsville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Dentsville 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 Dentsville 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 southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
