The Pittman Center 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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3.89 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1921. The next wettest, 2.74 inches, fell in 1957.
Pittman Center’s center stands about 1,370 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,280 ft to 2,900 ft, a difference of 1,620 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Kuwohi, about 6,650 ft, 15 miles south-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Snowbird Group, including Pigeon Siltstone, Roaring Fork Sandstone, Metcalf Phyllite, Longarm Quartzite, and Wading Branch Formation, from the Precambrian.
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 4×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Siltstone. Age: Precambrian. About 10 mi of the line.
Metagraywacke. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Precambrian. About 3 mi of the line.
Graywacke. Age: Precambrian. About 3 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 0.5 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 Pittman Center reaches the Gulf of America by way of Webb Creek, the Little Pigeon, the French Broad, the Tennessee, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,710 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Guntersville Lake, White Lake (historical), Pickwick Lake and Cummings Lake.
970 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Pittman Center; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Pittman Center has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 26° in January. A normal year brings about 8 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 58 inches of water.
On November 14 Pittman Center normally reaches 59° and falls to 34°. The record high is 79°, in 1989; the record low 16°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 2.26 in, fell in 1945.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1921 at Gatlinburg 2 SW, 10 miles west-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
