The Heath Springs 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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82° on Nov. 14, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 80° in 2021.
Heath Springs’s center stands about 690 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 520 ft to 740 ft, a difference of 220 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Persimmon Fork Formation (metavolcanic), from the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 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 44×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Metavolcanic. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Carboniferous to Permian, 252 to 359 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 72 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Carboniferous to Permian, 252 to 359 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Metagranite, metadiorite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 0.1 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 Heath Springs reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Hanging Rock Creek, the Little Lynches, the Lynches, Clark Creek, the Great Pee Dee, Schooner Creek and the Waccamaw: about 210 river miles.
110 miles of the trip are on the Lynches.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Heath Springs; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Heath Springs has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 31° in January. About 38 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Wateree Dam, 18 miles south, 460 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
