The Century 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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4.05 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1977. The next wettest, 3.42 inches, fell in 1987.
Century’s center stands about 100 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 40 ft to 260 ft, a difference of 220 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Citronelle Formation (sand), from the Late Pliocene, 2.6 to 3.6 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.
Sand. Age: Late Pliocene, 2.6 to 3.6 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 1 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 Century reaches Pensacola Bay and the Gulf of America by way of the Escambia and the Dead: about 45 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Century; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Century has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 38° in January. About 72 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Century normally reaches 68° and falls to 44°. The record high is 82°, in 1993; the record low 25°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.84 in, fell in 2024.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1977 at Brewton 3 ENE, 17 miles northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
