The Livingston 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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92° on Nov. 13, 1985, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 85° in 2005.
Livingston’s center stands about 160 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 110 ft to 260 ft, a difference of 150 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Alamuchee Hill, about 400 ft, 12 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvial, coastal and low terrace deposits (sand), from the Holocene, less than 12,000 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 64×. 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 8 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sand, clay, sandstone. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Chalk, clay. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Chalk. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 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.
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 Livingston reaches Mobile Bay and the Gulf of America by way of the Sucarnoochee, the Tombigbee and the Mobile: about 240 river miles.
160 miles of the trip are on the Tombigbee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Livingston; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Livingston has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 33° in January. About 55 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Livingston normally reaches 66° and falls to 40°. The record high is 81°, in 1964; the record low 22°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 3.35 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Gainesville Lock, 18 miles north. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
