The Fairview 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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3.62 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1947. The next wettest, 3.20 inches, fell in 1979.
Fairview’s center stands about 570 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 430 ft to 610 ft, a difference of 180 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Mafic Volcanic Rocks (metabasalt), from the Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old.
The section below crosses 10 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 61×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Phyllite, slate. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Felsic-volcanic. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Phyllite, metavolcanic. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Metavolcanic. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Phyllite, metasiltstone. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Gabbro. Age: Proterozoic, 542 to 2,500 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. 4 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 Fairview reaches Albemarle Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Finneywood Creek, the South Meherrin, the Meherrin and the Chowan: about 200 river miles.
140 miles of the trip are on the Meherrin.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Fairview; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Fairview has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 29° in January. A normal year brings about 5 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 46 inches of water.
On November 14 Fairview normally reaches 62° and falls to 38°. The record high is 78°, in 1989; the record low 18°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 0.70 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1947 at Chase City, 3 miles south, 160 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
