The Lobeco 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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28° on Nov. 14, 1968, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1945. Next is 28° in 1969.
Lobeco’s center stands about 40 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 80 ft, a difference of 80 ft: gently rolling country. Open water lies within three miles.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Socastee Formation (sand, clay), from the Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. 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: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Peat. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand, gravel. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 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 Lobeco reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Coosaw: about 17 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Lobeco; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lobeco has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 40° in January. About 45 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Lobeco normally reaches 70° and falls to 48°. The record high is 82°, in 1993; the record low 28°, in 1968. The most rain on this date, 0.46 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1945 at Beaufort Mcas, 5 miles south-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
