The Berry 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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16° on Nov. 15, 1969, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1892. Next is 18° in 1953.
Berry’s center stands about 450 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 350 ft to 650 ft, a difference of 300 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Ford Mountain, about 820 ft, 12 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Pottsville Formation (upper part) (shale, siltstone, sandstone), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 42×. 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, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 21 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 3 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 Berry reaches Mobile Bay and the Gulf of America by way of the North River, the Black Warrior, the Tombigbee and the Mobile: about 410 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Tuscaloosa.
170 miles of the trip are on the Tombigbee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Berry; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Berry has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 34° in January. About 57 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Berry normally reaches 66° and falls to 41°. The record high is 83°, in 1978; the record low 21°, in 1982. The most rain on this date, 2.62 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1892 at Fayette, 13 miles west, 120 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
