The Attapulgus 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. 12, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1968. Next is 85° in 1986.
Attapulgus’s center stands about 320 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 180 ft to 320 ft, a difference of 140 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Miccosukee Formation (clay, sand, gravel), from the Tertiary Neogene, 2.6 to 23 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 60×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Clay, sand, gravel. Age: Tertiary Neogene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 19 mi of the line.
Dolostone, sand, clay. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
Sandstone, limestone. Age: Middle Miocene, 12 to 16 million years old. About 0.6 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Oligocene, 23 to 34 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 Attapulgus reaches the Gulf of America by way of Attapulgus Creek, the Little River and the Ochlockonee: about 100 river miles.
70 miles of the trip are on the Ochlockonee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Attapulgus; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Attapulgus has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 40° in January. About 60 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Attapulgus normally reaches 73° and falls to 47°. The record high is 81°, in 2005; the record low 27°, in 2011. The most rain on this date, 2.95 in, fell in 2008.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1968 at Quincy 3 SSW, 16 miles south-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
