The Camden 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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3.86 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1949. The next wettest, 3.25 inches, fell in 2015.
Camden’s center stands about 450 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 370 ft to 570 ft, a difference of 200 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Ward Hill, about 690 ft, 15 miles south-southeast.
The section below crosses 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 59×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sand. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Chert. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 1 smaller unit along the line are not listed.
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 Camden reaches the Gulf of America by way of Whitfield Creek, Cypress Creek, the Tennessee, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,120 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Camden; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Camden has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 28° in January. About 56 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 3 inches of snow.
On November 14 Camden normally reaches 60° and falls to 38°. The record high is 81°, in 1985; the record low 13°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 2.35 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1949 at Huntingdon Water Plant, 19 miles west-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
