The Madrid 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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28° on Nov. 12, 2011, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1950. Next is 28° in 2019.
Madrid’s center stands about 190 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 140 ft to 240 ft, a difference of 100 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Claiborne/Jackson Group; Residuum (clay), from the Eocene to Miocene, 5.3 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 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. Age: Eocene to Miocene, 5.3 to 56 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Late Eocene, 34 to 38 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Middle Miocene to Early Pliocene, 3.6 to 16 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Late Eocene, 34 to 38 million years old. About 0.2 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 Madrid reaches the Gulf of America by way of Big Creek, Marshall Creek, the Chipola and the Apalachicola: about 130 river miles.
90 miles of the trip are on the Chipola.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Madrid; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Madrid has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 41° in January. About 51 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Madrid normally reaches 72° and falls to 47°. The record high is 85°, in 1955; the record low 29°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 1.83 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1950 at Marianna Municipal Airport, 19 miles southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
