The Crewe 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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8° on Nov. 12, 2016, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1972. Next is 14° in 1986.
Crewe’s center stands about 500 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 330 ft to 550 ft, a difference of 220 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Leigh Mountain, about 730 ft, 13 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 42×. 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.
Paragneiss. Age: Proterozoic, 542 to 2,500 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Mylonite, gneiss, cataclasite. Age: Proterozoic to Phanerozoic, less than 2,500 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Phyllite, slate. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic to Carboniferous, 299 to 1,600 million years old. About 1 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 Crewe reaches Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Deep Creek, the Appomattox and the James: about 140 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Chesdin.
75 miles of the trip are on the James.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Crewe; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Crewe has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 26° in January. About 47 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 3 inches of snow.
On November 14 Crewe normally reaches 61° and falls to 36°. The record high is 75°, in 1989; the record low 14°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 0.70 in, fell in 1997.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1972 at Fort Pickett, 14 miles southeast, 170 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
