The Stuart 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.
Stuart’s center stands about 1,330 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,140 ft to 2,340 ft, a difference of 1,200 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Hog Mountain, about 3,580 ft, 13 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Bassett Formation - Biotite gneiss and granite gneiss, from the Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old.
The section below crosses 10 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.
Gneiss. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Mica-schist. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Schist. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 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. 4 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 Stuart reaches Albemarle Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the South Mayo, the Mayo, the Dan and the Roanoke: about 360 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 Stuart; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Stuart 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 Stuart 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, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
