The Meadows of Dan 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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5.05 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1950. The next wettest, 4.05 inches, fell in 2002.
Meadows of Dan’s center stands about 2,970 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,720 ft to 3,280 ft, a difference of 560 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Buffalo Mountain, about 3,920 ft, 6 miles northwest.
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 8×. 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 8 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.
Schist. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Amphibolite. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Mica-schist. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 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. 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 Meadows of Dan reaches Albemarle Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Tuggle Creek, the Dan and the Roanoke: about 400 river miles.
Lake on the way: Roanoke Rapids Lake.
190 miles of the trip are on the Dan.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Meadows of Dan; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Meadows of Dan has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 25° in January. A normal year brings about 7 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 59 inches of water.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1950 at Meadows Of Dan 5 SW, 6 miles south-southwest, 740 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
