The White Hall 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. 13, 1955, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1884. Next is 85° in 1964.
White Hall’s center stands about 290 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 220 ft to 370 ft, a difference of 150 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Sanders Hill, about 450 ft, 8 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Terrace deposits (coarse-detrital, fine-detrital), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 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 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.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Marl. Age: Late Eocene, 34 to 38 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 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 White Hall reaches the Gulf of America by way of Caney Bayou, the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 700 river miles.
600 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of White Hall; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
White Hall has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 33° in January. About 54 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 2 inches of snow.
On November 14 White Hall normally reaches 64° and falls to 43°. The record high is 85°, in 1955; the record low 19°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 3.65 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1884 at Pine Bluff, 5 miles southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
