The Lake Land'Or 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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5.00 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1959. The next wettest, 4.23 inches, fell in 2009.
Lake Land'Or’s center stands about 280 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 200 ft to 370 ft, a difference of 170 ft: gently rolling country.
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 53×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Biotite-gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Gravel, sand. Age: Pliocene, 2.6 to 5.3 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Amphibolite. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand, silt. Age: Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Granite, quartz-monzonite, granodiorite. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 324 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. 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 Lake Land'Or reaches Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the South River, the Mattaponi and the York: about 140 river miles.
90 miles of the trip are on the Mattaponi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Lake Land'Or; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lake Land'Or has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 26° in January. A normal year brings about 12 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 45 inches of water.
On November 14 Lake Land'Or normally reaches 59° and falls to 37°. The record high is 78°, in 1985; the record low 14°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 0.94 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1959 at Corbin, 16 miles northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
