The Lowrys 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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15° on Nov. 15, 1963, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1922. Next is 17° in 1969.
Lowrys’s center stands about 720 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 550 ft to 730 ft, a difference of 180 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Porphyritic granite of Lowrys pluton, from the Devonian, 359 to 422 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 55×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Metagranite, metadiorite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Metagabbro. Age: Neoproterozoic to Devonian, 359 to 1,000 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Metadiorite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Ordovician, 445 to 1,000 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Amphibolite, gneiss. Age: Neoproterozoic to Paleozoic, 252 to 1,000 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Metavolcanic, gneiss. Age: Neoproterozoic to Ordovician, 445 to 1,000 million years old. About 0.5 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 Lowrys reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Conrad Creek, South Fork Fishing Creek, Fishing Creek, the Catawba, the Wateree, the Congaree, the Santee and the South Santee: about 270 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lib Pines Lake.
90 miles of the trip are on the Wateree.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Lowrys; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lowrys has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. About 46 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Lowrys normally reaches 63° and falls to 38°. The record high is 82°, in 1989; the record low 20°, in 1963. The most rain on this date, 1.48 in, fell in 1940.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1922 at Chester 1 SE, 9 miles south-southeast, 160 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
