The Lowndesboro 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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86° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1872. Next is 85° in 1896.
Lowndesboro’s center stands about 420 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 140 ft to 420 ft, a difference of 280 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows High terrace deposits (sand), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 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 62×. 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: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Chalk, marl. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Chalk. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 0.3 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 Lowndesboro reaches Mobile Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Dry Creek, Tallawassee Creek, the Alabama and the Mobile: about 330 river miles.
270 miles of the trip are on the Alabama.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Lowndesboro; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lowndesboro has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in July; winter nights fall to about 36° in January. About 51 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Lowndesboro normally reaches 70° and falls to 43°. The record high is 85°, in 1993; the record low 26°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 3.25 in, fell in 1921.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1872 from the Montgomery Area threaded record (Montgomery Airport, 12 miles east, 200 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
