The South Cleveland 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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13° on Nov. 15, 1969, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1955. Next is 17° in 1963.
South Cleveland’s center stands about 850 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 760 ft to 1,120 ft, a difference of 360 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Peaky Top, about 1,740 ft, 15 miles southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Nolichucky Shale, and Maryville, Rogersville, and Rutledge Formations, and Pumpkin Valley Shale, from the Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old.
The section below crosses 13 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 24×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Shale. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Dolostone, limestone. Age: Cambrian to Ordovician, 445 to 542 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 0.7 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 7 smaller units 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 South Cleveland reaches the Gulf of America by way of Candies Creek, the Hiwassee, the Tennessee, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,560 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 South Cleveland; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
South Cleveland has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 29° in January. About 58 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 1 inch of snow.
On November 14 South Cleveland normally reaches 62° and falls to 37°. The record high is 79°, in 1999; the record low 19°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 1.22 in, fell in 2007.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1955 at Cleveland Filter Plant, 10 miles northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
