The Norway 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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5.90 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1951. The next wettest, 2.42 inches, fell in 2023.
Norway’s center stands about 240 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 200 ft to 330 ft, a difference of 130 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Huber/Lisbon/Barnwell Formations, undivided (clay, sand), from the Eocene, 34 to 56 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.
Clay, sand. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Sand, gravel. Age: Tertiary Neogene to Quaternary, less than 23 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sand, gravel. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Pliocene, 2.6 to 5.3 million years old. 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.
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 Norway reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Willow Swamp, the South Fork Edisto, the Edisto and the North Edisto: about 160 river miles.
100 miles of the trip are on the Edisto.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Norway; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Norway has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 36° in January. About 48 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Norway normally reaches 66° and falls to 44°. The record high is 82°, in 1951; the record low 24°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 0.50 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1951 at Bamberg, 12 miles south-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
