The Stewartville 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. 14, 2024, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1950. Next is 84° in 1958.
Stewartville’s center stands about 730 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 660 ft to 1,160 ft, a difference of 500 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Rebecca Mountain, about 1,540 ft, 8 miles northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Talladega Group; Jemison Chert and Chulafinnee Schist undifferentiated, from the Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 million years old.
The section below crosses 8 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 21×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Schist. Age: Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Phyllite, metaclastic. Age: Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Quartzite, metaconglomerate. Age: Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Greenstone, phyllite. Age: Paleozoic, 252 to 542 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Mica-schist, phyllite. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 1 mi of the line.
Biotite-gneiss, muscovite-schist. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 1 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 2 smaller units 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 Stewartville reaches Mobile Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Shelton Creek, Weogufka Creek, the Coosa, the Alabama and the Mobile: about 440 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lay Lake.
310 miles of the trip are on the Alabama.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Stewartville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Stewartville has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 31° in January. About 57 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 2 inches of snow.
On November 14 Stewartville normally reaches 65° and falls to 39°. The record high is 87°, in 2024; the record low 17°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.42 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1950 at Sylacauga 4 NE, 9 miles north-northeast, 230 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
