The Rutledge 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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19° on Nov. 15, 1969, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1900. Next is 20° in 1940.
Rutledge’s center stands about 350 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 280 ft to 440 ft, a difference of 160 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Motes Hill, about 520 ft, 12 miles northeast.
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 62×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Clay, sand. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Silt, clay. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 3 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 Rutledge reaches Pensacola Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Patsaliga Creek, the Conecuh, the Escambia and the Dead: about 180 river miles.
80 miles of the trip are on the Conecuh.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Rutledge; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Rutledge has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 34° in January. About 60 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Rutledge normally reaches 70° and falls to 41°. The record high is 84°, in 1993; the record low 22°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 2.16 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1900 at Greenville, 18 miles west-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
