The Patrick Springs 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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6.59 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1913. The next wettest, 4.60 inches, fell in 2009.
Patrick Springs’s center stands about 1,280 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,040 ft to 2,100 ft, a difference of 1,060 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Rocky Knob, about 3,540 ft, 15 miles north-northwest.
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 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.
Mica-schist. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Metagraywacke. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Metagraywacke. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Schist. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
Metagranite. Age: Early Cambrian to Late Ordovician, 455 to 540 million years old. About 0.6 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 Patrick Springs reaches Albemarle Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the South Mayo, the Mayo, the Dan and the Roanoke: about 350 river miles.
Lake on the way: Roanoke Rapids Lake.
130 miles of the trip are on the Roanoke.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Patrick Springs; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Patrick Springs has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 25° in January. A normal year brings about 6 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 52 inches of water.
On November 14 Patrick Springs normally reaches 60° and falls to 34°. The record high is 77°, in 1985; the record low 14°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 2.21 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1913 at Stuart, 3 miles west. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
