The McBee 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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3.65 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1947. The next wettest, 2.77 inches, fell in 2008.
McBee’s center stands about 480 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 280 ft to 530 ft, a difference of 250 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Peedee Formation - Black Creek Group, undivided (clay, sand), from the Late Cretaceous, 66 to 72 million years old.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 52×. 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 22 mi of the line.
Sand, gravel. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 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 McBee reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Cedar Creek, the Lynches, Clark Creek, the Great Pee Dee, Schooner Creek and the Waccamaw: about 190 river miles.
130 miles of the trip are on the Lynches.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of McBee; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
McBee has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 32° in January. About 48 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 McBee normally reaches 66° and falls to 40°. The record high is 82°, in 1951; the record low 22°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 0.72 in, fell in 1997.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1947 at Hartsville, 13 miles east-southeast, 300 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
