The Stateburg 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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3.33 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1901. The next wettest, 2.85 inches, fell in 1979.
Stateburg’s center stands about 320 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 110 ft to 380 ft, a difference of 270 ft: 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 57×. 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: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Pliocene, 2.6 to 5.3 million years old. About 3 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 Stateburg reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Beech Creek, the Wateree, the Congaree, the Santee and the South Santee: about 160 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 Stateburg; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Stateburg has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 33° in January. About 49 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Stateburg normally reaches 65° and falls to 40°. The record high is 83°, in 1989; the record low 22°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 1.65 in, fell in 1940.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1901 at Sumter, 11 miles east, 150 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
