The Ethelsville 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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22° on Nov. 17, 1997, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1981. Next is 22° in 2013.
Ethelsville’s center stands about 380 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 240 ft to 460 ft, a difference of 220 ft: rolling country.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 53×. 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: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 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 Ethelsville reaches Mobile Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Nash Creek, Kincaide Creek, the Tombigbee and the Mobile: about 340 river miles.
280 miles of the trip are on the Tombigbee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Ethelsville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Ethelsville has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in July; winter nights fall to about 36° in January. About 57 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Ethelsville normally reaches 67° and falls to 43°. The record high is 81°, in 2011; the record low 22°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 2.34 in, fell in 2024.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1981 at Columbus, 10 miles west-northwest, 240 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
