The Fort Deposit 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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19° on Nov. 15, 1969, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1900. Next is 20° in 1940.
Fort Deposit’s center stands about 470 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 320 ft to 560 ft, a difference of 240 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Carmel, about 660 ft, 14 miles east.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Selma Group; Providence Sand (sand, clay), from the Cretaceous, 66 to 145 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 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.
Clay, sand. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Chalk. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand, clay, sandstone. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 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. 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 Fort Deposit reaches Pensacola Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Piney Woods Creek, Pigeon Creek, the Sepulga, the Conecuh, the Escambia and the Dead: about 180 river miles.
65 miles of the trip are on Pigeon Creek.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Fort Deposit; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Fort Deposit has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 34° in January. About 60 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Fort Deposit normally reaches 70° and falls to 41°. The record high is 84°, in 1993; the record low 22°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 2.16 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1900 at Greenville, 14 miles south, 130 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
