The North Garden 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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15° on Nov. 14, 1986, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 17° in 1933.
North Garden’s center stands about 640 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 500 ft to 1,250 ft, a difference of 750 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Humpback Mountain, about 3,620 ft, 14 miles west.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Biotite-Muscovite Leucogranite Gneiss (biotite-gneiss), from the Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old.
The section below crosses 13 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.
Biotite-gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Biotite-gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone, siltstone. Age: Triassic, 202 to 252 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Metabasalt. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Phyllite, schist. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Granulite, gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion 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. 7 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 North Garden reaches Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the South Branch North Fork Hardware, the North Fork Hardware, the Hardware and the James: about 210 river miles.
180 miles of the trip are on the James.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of North Garden; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
North Garden has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 28° in January. A normal year brings about 17 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 48 inches of water.
On November 14 North Garden normally reaches 58° and falls to 40°. The record high is 81°, in 1955; the record low 15°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 2.36 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Charlottesville 2 W, 9 miles northeast, 230 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
