The Eufaula 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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21° on Nov. 15, 1969, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1928. Next is 23° in 2019.
Eufaula’s center stands about 260 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 180 ft to 430 ft, a difference of 250 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Johnny Moore Hill, about 500 ft, 14 miles southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows High terrace deposits (sand), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 56×. 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 7 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 1 smaller unit along the line are not listed.
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 Eufaula reaches the Gulf of America by way of Chewalla Creek, the Chattahoochee and the Apalachicola: about 200 river miles.
Lake on the way: Walter F George Reservoir.
110 miles of the trip are on the Apalachicola.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Eufaula; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Eufaula has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 37° in January. About 56 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Eufaula normally reaches 69° and falls to 45°. The record high is 85°, in 1959; the record low 26°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 2.00 in, fell in 1930.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1928 at Clayton, 18 miles west, 310 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
