The Orange Beach 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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29° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1949. Next is 30° in 1963.
Orange Beach’s center stands about 20 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 60 ft, a difference of 60 ft: nearly flat ground. Open water lies within three miles.
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: Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 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.
Rain that falls on Orange Beach runs straight into Perdido Bay and the Gulf of America.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Orange Beach; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Orange Beach has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 42° in January. About 58 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Orange Beach normally reaches 70° and falls to 49°. The record high is 82°, in 1993; the record low 30°, in 1963. The most rain on this date, 1.61 in, fell in 1961.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1949 at Pensacola Forest Sherman Nas, 16 miles east-northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
