The Laurel Hill 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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86° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 85° in 2008.
Laurel Hill’s center stands about 270 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 180 ft to 330 ft, a difference of 150 ft: gently 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 4 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 15 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Eocene to Miocene, 5.3 to 56 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Middle Miocene to Early Pliocene, 3.6 to 16 million years old. About 0.6 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 Laurel Hill reaches Pensacola Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Green Branch, Horsehead Creek, Pond Creek, the Shoal and the Yellow: about 80 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Laurel Hill; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Laurel Hill has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 38° in January. About 64 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Laurel Hill normally reaches 72° and falls to 44°. The record high is 85°, in 2008; the record low 27°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 2.08 in, fell in 2024.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Crestview Faa/Ap, 13 miles south-southwest, 120 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
