The Georgia 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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1° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1945. Next is 10° in 1986.
Georgia’s center stands about 350 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 210 ft to 830 ft, a difference of 620 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Gilson Mountain, about 1,960 ft, 11 miles east.
The section below crosses 9 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 14×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Quartz-feldspar-schist, phyllite, metagraywacke. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone. Age: Late Ordovician, 445 to 459 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Phyllite, quartzite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Early Cambrian, 521 to 542 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Slate. Age: Cambrian to Early Ordovician, 471 to 542 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Slate, sedimentary-breccia, dolostone. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 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. 3 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 Georgia reaches the St. Lawrence River by way of the Mill and the Richelieu: about 120 river miles. The St. Lawrence carries it on to the Atlantic.
Lake on the way: Lake Champlain.
80 miles of the trip are on the Richelieu.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Georgia; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Georgia has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 81° in July; winter nights fall to about 10° in January. About 31 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Georgia normally reaches 46° and falls to 29°. The record high is 64°, in 1959; the record low 11°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.88 in, fell in 2009.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1945 from the Plattsburgh Area threaded record (Plattsburgh International Airport, 17 miles west-southwest, 180 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
