The Wilmot 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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6.90 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1909. The next wettest, 4.65 inches, fell in 1957.
Wilmot’s center stands about 120 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 100 ft to 160 ft, a difference of 60 ft: gently rolling country.
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: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 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 Wilmot reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Bayou Bartholomew, the Ouachita, the Black River, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 440 river miles.
150 miles of the trip are on the Ouachita.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Wilmot; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Wilmot has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 32° in January. About 56 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 1 inch of snow.
On November 14 Wilmot normally reaches 65° and falls to 42°. The record high is 83°, in 1999; the record low 18°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 2.75 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1909 at Portland, 14 miles north-northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
