The Uriah 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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7.86 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1940. The next wettest, 5.50 inches, fell in 2006.
Uriah’s center stands about 350 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 210 ft to 380 ft, a difference of 170 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Citronelle Formation (sand), from the Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 50×. 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. Age: Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Oligocene, 23 to 34 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.
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 Uriah reaches Mobile Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Hurricane Branch, Butterfork Creek, the Little River, the Alabama and the Mobile: about 110 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Uriah; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Uriah has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 39° in January. About 64 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Uriah normally reaches 70° and falls to 47°. The record high is 84°, in 1985; the record low 24°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 2.15 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1940 at Atmore, 9 miles south-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
