Red Oak Bays, NC
Red Oak Bays was named by me to be after the locality immediately to the south. The LiDAR shows the swamp to be the assemblage of two discrete bays joined at the hip, as it were. The shape of both depressions fits well to the standard bayCarolina archetype, and the orientations are similar to each other and to nearby bays.
Red Oak Road passes between the bays at the point they overlap, and homes have been built along the road on both sides. Google Streetview imagery is available along both Red Oak Road and along Red Oak Blvd, which passes along the western rim of the western-most bay. A streetview image in the attached album shows the roadway on the rim, and the homes to the east setting down a meter or two on the bay floor. The view can be seen interactively in your browser with this LINK. The KMZ file linked above includes a placemark for the image, and has an appropriate look-at value.
The western-most bay has an existing natural drainage channel out to the north. The eastern bay, with an outlet only into its companion bay, has a floor at a higher elevation, suggesting more organic fill for the closed system, vs its naturally-draining partner. Neither the LiDAR nor the USGS topographic map suggest there are any man-made drainage ditches within these two bays, and they remain primarily in a natural state. The latest satellite imagery shows the existence of a short pathway network cut towards the center of the western bay.
Red Oak Road passes between the bays at the point they overlap, and homes have been built along the road on both sides. Google Streetview imagery is available along both Red Oak Road and along Red Oak Blvd, which passes along the western rim of the western-most bay. A streetview image in the attached album shows the roadway on the rim, and the homes to the east setting down a meter or two on the bay floor. The view can be seen interactively in your browser with this LINK. The KMZ file linked above includes a placemark for the image, and has an appropriate look-at value.
The western-most bay has an existing natural drainage channel out to the north. The eastern bay, with an outlet only into its companion bay, has a floor at a higher elevation, suggesting more organic fill for the closed system, vs its naturally-draining partner. Neither the LiDAR nor the USGS topographic map suggest there are any man-made drainage ditches within these two bays, and they remain primarily in a natural state. The latest satellite imagery shows the existence of a short pathway network cut towards the center of the western bay.
- Index #: 144311_1660
- Location: 36.042443029855335,-77.90044870272824
- Major: 0.7 km . . . Minor: 0.58 km
- Eccentricity: 0.561
- Area: 32.28 hectares
- Bearing: 135.14º
- Elevation: 59.77 m
- Archetype: bayCarolina
- Effective Diameter: 641.093 m
- Index #: 144311_1762
- Location: 36.04261827075013,-77.90693960561931
- Major: 0.67 km . . . Minor: 0.54 km
- Eccentricity: 0.594
- Area: 28.85 hectares
- Bearing: 135.16º
- Elevation: 58.28 m
- Archetype: bayCarolina
- Effective Diameter: 606.077 m
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