The Fruithurst 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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Fruithurst’s center stands about 1,090 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 960 ft to 1,230 ft, a difference of 270 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Oakey Mountain, about 1,940 ft, 11 miles north-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Heflin Phyllite (metasiltstone), from the Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 20×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Metasiltstone. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Phyllite, metaclastic. Age: Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Mica-schist, phyllite. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 5 mi of the line.
Schist. Age: Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Arkose, conglomerate-sandstone, mudstone. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 0.7 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 Fruithurst reaches Mobile Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Muscadine Creek, the Tallapoosa, the Alabama and the Mobile: about 570 river miles.
310 miles of the trip are on the Alabama.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Fruithurst; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
