The Hopkins 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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75° on Nov. 11, 2024, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1924. Next is 72° in 1931.
Hopkins’s center stands about 190 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 130 ft to 270 ft, a difference of 140 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Sand Mountain, about 410 ft, 11 miles west-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Duplin Formation (sand, clay), from the Pliocene, 2.6 to 5.3 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 48×. 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, clay. Age: Pliocene, 2.6 to 5.3 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sand, gravel. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 72 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 72 million years old. About 2 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 Hopkins reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Cabin Branch, Myers Creek, Cedar Creek, the Congaree, the Santee and the South Santee: about 160 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 Hopkins; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hopkins has a oceanic climate. Summer afternoons average 78° in July; winter nights fall to about 28° in January. A normal year brings about 7 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 74 inches of water.
On November 14 Hopkins normally reaches 55° and falls to 38°. The record high is 72°, in 1931; the record low 16°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 2.40 in, fell in 1961.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1924 from the Caesars Head Area threaded record (Columbia Metropolitan Airport, 14 miles west). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
