The Paxton 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.
Paxton’s center stands about 320 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 240 ft to 350 ft, a difference of 110 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 13 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Eocene to Miocene, 5.3 to 56 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 Paxton reaches Pensacola Bay and the Gulf of America by way of 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 Paxton; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Paxton 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 Paxton 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, 19 miles southwest, 170 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
