The Berry College 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. 17, 1958, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 82° in 1955.
Berry College’s center stands about 620 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 580 ft to 770 ft, a difference of 190 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Lavender Mountain, about 1,700 ft, 6 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Floyd Shale, from the Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old.
The section below crosses 13 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 21×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Dolostone. Age: Cambrian to Ordovician, 445 to 542 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale, conglomerate. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million 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. 7 smaller units along the line are not listed.
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 Berry College reaches Mobile Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Big Dry Creek, the Oostanaula, the Coosa, the Alabama and the Mobile: about 640 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lay Lake.
310 miles of the trip are on the Alabama.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Berry College; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Berry College has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. About 55 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Berry College normally reaches 64° and falls to 38°. The record high is 82°, in 1955; the record low 18°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.77 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Rome, 4 miles south-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
