The McIntosh 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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20° on Nov. 16, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1961. Next is 25° in 1997.
McIntosh’s center stands about 70 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 10 ft to 170 ft, a difference of 160 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Dove Roost Hill, about 280 ft, 4 miles west-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 2 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.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 9 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 McIntosh reaches Mobile Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Birch Branch, Bilbo Creek, the Tombigbee and the Mobile: about 70 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of McIntosh; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
McIntosh has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 36° in January. About 60 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 McIntosh normally reaches 69° and falls to 43°. The record high is 84°, in 1993; the record low 26°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 2.00 in, fell in 1961.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1961 at Jackson, 19 miles north-northeast, 150 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
