The West Point 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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78° on Nov. 15, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1994. Next is 76° in 2010.
West Point’s center stands about 970 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 820 ft to 1,050 ft, a difference of 230 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Wilson Mountain, about 1,190 ft, 15 miles northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Pottsville Formation (lower part) (sandstone), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 32×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 17 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 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 West Point reaches Mobile Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Crooked Creek, the Sipsey Fork, the Mulberry Fork, the Black Warrior, the Tombigbee and the Mobile: about 490 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lewis Smith Lake.
170 miles of the trip are on the Tombigbee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of West Point; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
West Point has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 29° in January. About 62 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1994 at Cullman 1.5 SE/Kress Farms, 10 miles east-southeast, 160 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
