The Lowndesville 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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4.34 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1899. The next wettest, 3.01 inches, fell in 1940.
Lowndesville’s center stands about 600 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 470 ft to 660 ft, a difference of 190 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Gneissic granite of Antreville pluton, from the Ordovician to Silurian, 422 to 487 million years old.
The section below crosses 10 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.
Gneiss. Age: Ordovician to Silurian, 422 to 487 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Ordovician to Silurian, 422 to 487 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Biotite-gneiss, mica-schist. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Metagranite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Devonian, 359 to 1,000 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Biotite-gneiss. Age: Neoproterozoic to Paleozoic, 252 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Ultramafic. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 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. 4 smaller units along the line are not listed.
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 Lowndesville reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Rocky and the Savannah: about 280 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Lowndesville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lowndesville has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 32° in January. About 47 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Lowndesville normally reaches 65° and falls to 40°. The record high is 83°, in 1924; the record low 21°, in 1984. The most rain on this date, 1.66 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1899 at Calhoun Falls, 9 miles south-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
