The Moulton 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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15° on Nov. 17, 1997, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1957. Next is 16° in 2019.
Moulton’s center stands about 640 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 610 ft to 700 ft, a difference of 90 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Penitentiary Mountain, about 1,080 ft, 4 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Bangor Limestone, from the Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old.
The section below crosses 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 40×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 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. 1 smaller unit along the line are not listed.
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 Moulton reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Muddy Fork, Big Nance Creek, the Tennessee, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,330 river miles.
Lakes on the way: White Lake (historical) and Pickwick Lake.
970 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Moulton; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Moulton has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. About 60 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 2 inches of snow.
On November 14 Moulton normally reaches 62° and falls to 38°. The record high is 82°, in 1964; the record low 19°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 2.53 in, fell in 2005.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1957 at Moulton 2, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
