The Fairview 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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78° on Nov. 15, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1994. Next is 76° in 2010.
Fairview’s center stands about 940 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 800 ft to 1,050 ft, a difference of 250 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Peck Mountain, about 1,200 ft, 10 miles north-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Pottsville Formation (lower part) (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 33×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 22 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 2 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 Fairview reaches Mobile Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Duck Creek, the Duck, the Mulberry Fork, the Black Warrior, the Tombigbee and the Mobile: about 500 river miles.
170 miles of the trip are on the Tombigbee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Fairview; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Fairview has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 29° in January. About 62 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1994 at Cullman 1.5 SE/Kress Farms, 7 miles west-southwest, 130 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
