The Level Plains 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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87° on Nov. 17, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1976. Next is 85° in 1985.
Level Plains’s center stands about 320 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 170 ft to 360 ft, a difference of 190 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Claiborne Group; Gosport Sand and Lisbon Formation undifferentiated in part, from the Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 52×. 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. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Eocene to Miocene, 5.3 to 56 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Claystone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Silt, clay. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 1 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 Level Plains reaches Choctawhatchee Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Cowpen Creek, Claybank Creek and the Choctawhatchee: about 130 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Level Plains; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Level Plains has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 35° in January. About 62 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Level Plains normally reaches 71° and falls to 42°. The record high is 83°, in 1993; the record low 22°, in 1984. The most rain on this date, 1.00 in, fell in 2008.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1976 at Geneva No 2, 19 miles south-southwest, 180 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
