The Burkeville 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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84° on Nov. 16, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1970. Next is 82° in 1985.
Burkeville’s center stands about 530 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 390 ft to 590 ft, a difference of 200 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Leigh Mountain, about 730 ft, 9 miles west.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Burkeville Pluton (granodiorite, monzonite), from the Proterozoic, 542 to 2,500 million years old.
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 55×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Granodiorite, monzonite. Age: Proterozoic, 542 to 2,500 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Biotite-gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Phyllite, slate. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Biotite-gneiss, schist. Age: Proterozoic, 542 to 2,500 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Paragneiss. Age: Proterozoic, 542 to 2,500 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Biotite-gneiss. Age: Proterozoic, 542 to 2,500 million years old. About 0.9 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 Burkeville reaches Albemarle Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Little Nottoway, the Nottoway and the Chowan: about 200 river miles.
90 miles of the trip are on the Nottoway.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Burkeville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Burkeville has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 28° in January. A normal year brings about 8 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 45 inches of water.
On November 14 Burkeville normally reaches 61° and falls to 38°. The record high is 77°, in 1985; the record low 15°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 0.58 in, fell in 1997.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1970 at Amelia Courthouse, 16 miles northeast, 180 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
