The Stony Creek 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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4.83 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1893. The next wettest, 4.65 inches, fell in 2009.
Stony Creek’s center stands about 90 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 70 ft to 170 ft, a difference of 100 ft: gently rolling country.
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 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Gravel. Age: Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Tertiary to Quaternary, less than 66 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand, silt, clay. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 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 Stony Creek reaches Albemarle Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Stony Creek, the Nottoway and the Chowan: about 120 river miles.
85 miles of the trip are on the Chowan.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Stony Creek; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Stony Creek has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 29° in January. About 46 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 1 inch of snow.
On November 14 Stony Creek normally reaches 63° and falls to 38°. The record high is 78°, in 1989; the record low 19°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.03 in, fell in 1997.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Emporia 1 WNW, 19 miles south-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
