The Citronelle 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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Citronelle’s center stands about 320 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 140 ft to 360 ft, a difference of 220 ft: 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 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. 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 18 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 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 Citronelle reaches the Gulf of America by way of Sandy Ford Branch, Beaver Pond Branch, Bennett Creek, the Escatawpa and the Singing: about 95 river miles.
80 miles of the trip are on the Escatawpa.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Citronelle; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
