The Lake Murray of Richland 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.
Lake Murray of Richland’s center stands about 370 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 350 ft to 480 ft, a difference of 130 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Little Mountain, about 830 ft, 10 miles west-northwest.
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 38×. 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 13 mi of the line.
Metasiltstone, metasandstone. Age: Middle Cambrian, 497 to 521 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Mylonite. Age: Carboniferous to Permian, 252 to 359 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Slate. Age: Middle Cambrian to Ordovician, 445 to 521 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Metatonalite. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 0.8 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 Lake Murray of Richland reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Lake Murray, the Saluda, the Congaree, the Santee and the South Santee: about 200 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lib Pines Lake and Lake Murray.
70 miles of the trip are on the Santee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Lake Murray of Richland; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lake Murray of Richland 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 Lake Murray of Richland 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, 15 miles southeast, 150 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
