The Redland 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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86° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1872. Next is 85° in 1896.
Redland’s center stands about 450 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 160 ft to 570 ft, a difference of 410 ft: hilly country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Eutaw Formation (sand, clay), from the Cretaceous, 66 to 145 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 44×. 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, clay. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Chalk, marl. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Granodiorite, quartz-monzonite. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 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 Redland reaches Mobile Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Marl Branch, the Tallapoosa, the Alabama and the Mobile: about 380 river miles.
310 miles of the trip are on the Alabama.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Redland; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Redland has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in July; winter nights fall to about 36° in January. About 51 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Redland normally reaches 70° and falls to 43°. The record high is 85°, in 1993; the record low 26°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 3.25 in, fell in 1921.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1872 from the Montgomery Area threaded record (Montgomery Airport, 20 miles southwest, 230 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
