The Linden 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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3.88 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1951. The next wettest, 3.44 inches, fell in 2009.
Linden’s center stands about 160 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 90 ft to 220 ft, a difference of 130 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Midway Group; Porters Creek Formation (clay, sand), from the Paleocene, 56 to 66 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 60×. 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 9 mi of the line.
Sand, clay, sandstone. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Chalk. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 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 Linden reaches Mobile Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Sycamore Creek, the Chickasaw Bogue, the Tombigbee and the Mobile: about 210 river miles.
140 miles of the trip are on the Tombigbee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Linden; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Linden has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 34° in January. About 56 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Linden normally reaches 67° and falls to 42°. The record high is 83°, in 1955; the record low 19°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 3.05 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1951 at Demopolis Lock And Dam, 16 miles north-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
