The Bay Minette 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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20° on Nov. 14, 1963, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1913. Next is 25° in 1969.
Bay Minette’s center stands about 280 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 150 ft to 300 ft, a difference of 150 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Citronelle Formation (sand), from the Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 63×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sand, clay. Age: Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Pliocene, 2.6 to 3.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.9 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
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 Bay Minette reaches Mobile Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Whitehouse Creek, Bay Minette Creek and the Blakeley: about 20 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Bay Minette; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Bay Minette has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 41° in January. About 72 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Bay Minette normally reaches 70° and falls to 49°. The record high is 85°, in 1955; the record low 20°, in 1963. The most rain on this date, 5.70 in, fell in 1961.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1913 at Bay Minette, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
