The Point Baker 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. 17, 2019, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1996. Next is 86° in 2020.
Point Baker’s center stands about 180 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 30 ft to 200 ft, a difference of 170 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 2 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.
Clay, sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 7 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 Point Baker reaches Pensacola Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Clear Creek and the Blackwater: about 12 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Point Baker; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Point Baker has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 42° in January. About 66 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1996 at Whiting Field Nas South, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
