The Huntersville 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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74° on Nov. 14, 1973, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 74° in 2006.
Huntersville’s center stands about 2,390 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,230 ft to 3,500 ft, a difference of 1,270 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Red Spruce Knob, about 4,720 ft, 12 miles northwest.
The section below crosses 11 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.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Siltstone, sandstone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 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. 5 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 Huntersville reaches the Gulf of America by way of Knapp Creek, the Greenbrier, the New River, the Kanawha, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,960 river miles.
970 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Huntersville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Huntersville has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 21° in January. A normal year brings about 25 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 46 inches of water.
On November 14 Huntersville normally reaches 53° and falls to 32°. The record high is 74°, in 1973; the record low 8°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.44 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Hot Springs, 16 miles southeast, 150 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
