The Echols County 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, 1986, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1950. Next is 86° in 1991.
Echols County’s center stands about 160 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 150 ft to 200 ft, a difference of 50 ft: nearly flat ground.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Pleistocene-Pliocene sands and gravels (sand, gravel), from the Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 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, gravel. Age: Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old. About 20 mi of the line.
Dolostone, sand, clay. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Clay, sand, gravel. Age: Tertiary Neogene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 2 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 Echols County reaches the Gulf of America by way of Toms Creek and the Suwannee: about 220 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Echols County; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Echols County has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 38° in January. About 53 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Echols County normally reaches 72° and falls to 46°. The record high is 85°, in 1985; the record low 27°, in 1984. The most rain on this date, 1.25 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1950 at Jasper, 15 miles south-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
