The Union Springs 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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Union Springs’s center stands about 500 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 340 ft to 590 ft, a difference of 250 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Selma Group; Cusseta Sand Member of the Ripley Formation (sand, clay), from the Cretaceous, 66 to 145 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 57×. 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 12 mi of the line.
Chalk, marl. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand, clay, sandstone. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 0.4 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 Union Springs reaches Pensacola Bay and the Gulf of America by way of the Little Conecuh, the Conecuh, the Escambia and the Dead: about 240 river miles.
180 miles of the trip are on the Conecuh.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Union Springs; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
