The Guntersville 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. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1995. Next is 25° in 1997.
Guntersville’s center stands about 640 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 590 ft to 1,110 ft, a difference of 520 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Lemley Mountain, about 1,310 ft, 15 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Tuscumbia Limestone and Fort Payne Chert undivided, from the Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old.
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 30×. 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, conglomerate. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million 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.
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 Guntersville reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Tennessee, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,380 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Guntersville Lake, White Lake (historical) and Pickwick Lake.
970 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Guntersville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Guntersville has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 32° in January. About 57 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Guntersville normally reaches 62° and falls to 43°. The record high is 74°, in 2011; the record low 22°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.27 in, fell in 2024.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1995 at Guntersville No.2, 3 miles southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
