The Baskerville 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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85° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 84° in 1993.
Baskerville’s center stands about 290 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 230 ft to 430 ft, a difference of 200 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Ivy Hill, about 450 ft, 11 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Buggs Island Pluton (granite), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 359 million years old.
The section below crosses 12 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 58×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Granite. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 359 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Mylonite, gneiss, cataclasite. Age: Proterozoic to Phanerozoic, less than 2,500 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Proterozoic, 542 to 2,500 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Phyllite, metasiltstone. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Age: Proterozoic, 542 to 2,500 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Granitic. Age: Late Mississippian to Permian, 265 to 325 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 6 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 Baskerville reaches Albemarle Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Cox Creek, Allen Creek and the Roanoke: about 180 river miles.
Lake on the way: Roanoke Rapids Lake.
130 miles of the trip are on the Roanoke.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Baskerville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Baskerville has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 29° in January. About 44 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Baskerville normally reaches 63° and falls to 39°. The record high is 78°, in 1964; the record low 20°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.64 in, fell in 1997.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at John H Kerr Dam, 6 miles south-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
