The Billingsley 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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84° on Nov. 17, 1957, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 83° in 1924.
Billingsley’s center stands about 390 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 300 ft to 550 ft, a difference of 250 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Parker Mountain, about 590 ft, 10 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Tuscaloosa Group; Gordo Formation (sand, clay), from the Cretaceous, 66 to 145 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 38×. 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. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.5 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 Billingsley reaches Mobile Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Little Mulberry Creek, the Alabama and the Mobile: about 300 river miles.
230 miles of the trip are on the Alabama.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Billingsley; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Billingsley has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 33° in January. About 60 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Billingsley normally reaches 66° and falls to 41°. The record high is 81°, in 1944; the record low 21°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.95 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Clanton, 13 miles north-northeast, 200 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
