The Lewisburg 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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78° on Nov. 13, 1911, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1852. Next is 78° in 1993.
Lewisburg’s center stands about 2,080 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,690 ft to 2,400 ft, a difference of 710 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Cross Mountain, about 4,190 ft, 15 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Greenbrier Group (limestone, shale), from the Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old.
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 13×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Limestone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Siltstone, sandstone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 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.
Lewisburg has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 20° in January. A normal year brings about 30 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 42 inches of water.
On November 14 Lewisburg normally reaches 53° and falls to 29°. The record high is 78°, in 1993; the record low 7°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.14 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1852 at Lewisburg 3 N, 4 miles north-northeast, 220 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
