The Cana 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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3.50 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1893. The next wettest, 3.14 inches, fell in 2006.
Cana’s center stands about 1,420 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,160 ft to 2,000 ft, a difference of 840 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Fisher Peak, about 3,540 ft, 9 miles west-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alligator Back Formation - Feldspathic metagraywacke, from the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old.
The section below crosses 8 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 9×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Metagraywacke. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Biotite-gneiss. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Granodiorite, quartz-diorite. Age: Middle Devonian, 390 to 391 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Mica-schist, phyllite. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 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. 2 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 Cana reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Brushy Fork, Pauls Creek, Stewarts Creek, the Ararat, the Yadkin, the Pee Dee, the Great Pee Dee, Schooner Creek and the Waccamaw: about 380 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Tillery.
150 miles of the trip are on the Great Pee Dee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Cana; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Cana has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 25° in January. A normal year brings about 8 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 50 inches of water.
On November 14 Cana normally reaches 60° and falls to 33°. The record high is 77°, in 2003; the record low 11°, in 1920. The most rain on this date, 2.05 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Mount Airy 2 W, 7 miles south, 340 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
