The Pleasant Groves 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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82° on Nov. 12, 1985, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1891. Next is 82° in 2002.
Pleasant Groves’s center stands about 1,580 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 610 ft to 1,620 ft, a difference of 1,010 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Bice Mountain, about 1,830 ft, 12 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Pottsville Formation (sandstone, conglomerate), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 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 16×. 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, conglomerate. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 0.9 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 Pleasant Groves reaches the Gulf of America by way of North Sauty Creek, the Tennessee, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,410 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Guntersville Lake, 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 Pleasant Groves; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Pleasant Groves has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 29° in January. About 60 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 1 inch of snow.
On November 14 Pleasant Groves normally reaches 63° and falls to 37°. The record high is 78°, in 1909; the record low 17°, in 1968. The most rain on this date, 1.97 in, fell in 1921.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1891 at Scottsboro, 9 miles east-southeast, 960 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
