The Richburg 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.
Richburg’s center stands about 590 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 430 ft to 630 ft, a difference of 200 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Felsic metavolcanic rocks and felsic gneiss interpreted to the metavolcanics (metavolcanic, gneiss), from the Neoproterozoic to Ordovician, 445 to 1,000 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 61×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Metavolcanic, gneiss. Age: Neoproterozoic to Ordovician, 445 to 1,000 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Metagranite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Metagranite, metadiorite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Phyllonite, schist. Age: Paleozoic, 252 to 542 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Amphibolite, gneiss. Age: Neoproterozoic to Paleozoic, 252 to 1,000 million years old. About 0.6 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 Richburg reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Barbers Creek, Rocky Creek, the Catawba, the Wateree, the Congaree, the Santee and the South Santee: about 250 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 Richburg; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Richburg 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 Richburg 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, 10 miles west-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
