The Lugoff 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.
Sunny
Sunny; warmer
Sunny
Sunny
Sunny
Mostly sunny
Mostly sunny
82° on Nov. 14, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 80° in 2021.
Lugoff’s center stands about 280 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 140 ft to 360 ft, a difference of 220 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Buck Hill, about 500 ft, 9 miles north-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Cape Fear/Eutaw Formations (sand, gravel), from the Cretaceous, 66 to 145 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 42×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Clay, sand. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 72 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Sand, gravel. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Metagranite. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 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.
Metavolcanic. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 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 Lugoff reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Buck Creek, the Wateree, the Congaree, the Santee and the South Santee: about 200 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 Lugoff; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lugoff has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 31° in January. About 38 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Wateree Dam, 7 miles north. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
