The Slocomb 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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87° on Nov. 17, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1976. Next is 85° in 1985.
Slocomb’s center stands about 300 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 220 ft to 320 ft, a difference of 100 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Claiborne/Jackson Group; Residuum (clay), from the Eocene to Miocene, 5.3 to 56 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 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.
Clay. Age: Eocene to Miocene, 5.3 to 56 million years old. About 16 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Claystone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Pliocene, 2.6 to 3.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Middle Miocene to Early Pliocene, 3.6 to 16 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.6 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 Slocomb reaches Choctawhatchee Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Hatband Creek, Little Creek, Hurricane Creek and the Choctawhatchee: about 120 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Slocomb; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Slocomb has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 35° in January. About 62 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Slocomb normally reaches 71° and falls to 42°. The record high is 83°, in 1993; the record low 22°, in 1984. The most rain on this date, 1.00 in, fell in 2008.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1976 at Geneva No 2, 17 miles west-southwest, 160 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
